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I just need a conclusion paragraph for the essay below. I only need 3-4 sentences and I already have one down. The essay is based on "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. If you see any other errors, please let me know! Thank y'all so much!!!
The Necklace
In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the theme can be seen throughout the story on many different occurrences. This story is mainly about a woman who dreams of being wealthy and gets the chance to show off at a ball. However, after the ball is concluded, she finds that she has lost a fancy necklace she had borrowed from her friend. The theme of “The Necklace,” pleasure from greed won’t last forever, can be seen through Mathilde’s want for more than she has and dissatisfaction.
It can be seen all through the story that Mathilde is always wanting more. When Mathilde is imagining her house to be beautiful, she can’t stop thinking of her house luxurious. “She let her mind dwell on the large parlors, decked with old silk, with their delicate furniture, supporting precious bric-a-brac, and on the coquettish little rooms, perfumed, prepared for the five o'clock chat with the most intimate friends…”(82). Mathilde can’t stop thinking of how she was made from being rich. She must come back to the cold, hard reality that she has to deal with. She must face the fact that she has nothing. Her greedy pleasure of imagining an immaculate house cannot last forever. Not only does Mathilde constantly dream of a beautiful house all the time, she also always wants the best. “She tried on the necklaces before the mirror, hesitated, and could not decide to take them off and to give them up. She kept on asking: ‘You haven't anything else?’”(83). Even though Mathilde and a ton of necklaces to choose from, she still couldn’t find anything that made her look the way she wanted to. She finds the necklace that she wants (which happens to be the prettiest one), but she went through a lot of pouting to get there. While Mathilde does eventually get what she wants, she still always seems to want more.
In two major occurrences in the story, the readers can see that Mathilde is dissatisfied with everything. When Mathilde receives an invitation to the ball, she flings it away. When Mathilde receives an invitation to the ball, she flings it away. “Instead of being delighted, as [Mathilde’s] husband hoped, she flung the invitation [to the ball] petulantly across the table, murmuring: ‘What do you want me to do with this?’”(82). Instead of being sad that Mathilde has nothing to wear to the ball, she should be happy that she was invited. This shows her dissatisfaction of how fortunate Mathilde was to even be invited to the ball. Many couples didn’t get invited and she should be excited that she did. Earlier in the story, Mathilde goes on and on about how she feels that she was made for luxury. “She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs.”(82). This immediately shows that Mathilde is insanely dissatisfied with her own life. She is constantly complaining about her life being boring and plain. Instead of complaining, she should be happy she has a house, husband, and even food on the table.
All in all, the theme of this story is that Mathilde is full of greed and that she is dissatisfied with just about everything.