In the Short Story "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant is about a young woman who fantasizes about wealth, status, and luxury. She is unhappy with her life and wishes she married a man of a greater class than the husband she already has. When she is allowed to appear to the world as if she is of a higher class she is then given a beautiful necklace by her friend who appears to have more than her. She gets carried away during that night and when it is finally time for her to end her marvelous night the necklace is nowhere to be found. She then spends 10 long years paying back for the lost necklace but is told that the necklace was fake all along. The lesson that was to be learned was that Be satisfied and grateful for the things you have rather than striving for things that may appear better but often are also deprived of happiness themselves.
Madame Loisel wasn’t grateful for the things that she had and continued to strive for things out of reach, through all this she did not open her eyes to see that not everyone was doing as well as she thought, which eventually led to a long period of despair. According to the text “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!”. Her rich friend allowed her to borrow a necklace of diamonds, little did she know that the whole time the necklace was fake. She prejudged her friend and didn't get to know her therefore karma came back to bite her. She prejudged her friend and didn't get to know her therefore karma came back to bite her. If she had eaten her pride, jealousy, and judgment then she would have had the strength to confront her, but for ten long years, she paid way over for something that had no value at all.
In Conclusion, I believe that because Madame Loisel constantly strived to move up in the social class, she did not notice that some of her friends that might have appeared to be richer and have nice things just appreciate what they have. And because of this, she ended up wasting a large portion of her life on something pointless. In the story, Madame Loisel explains how she does not want to ask her friend for things because it makes her feel low compared to her. However, when given all the franks saved up by her husband it was simply not enough for her. His best efforts were not good enough which forced her to cowardly confront her friend to borrow some jewels in her possession. Even when her friend offered many different necklaces to her she was still not satisfied and chose the one that looked the most expensive which in the end because of her prejudgment she spent 10 long years paying her back. In the end, because Madame Loisel constantly strived to move up the social class and in doing so when she finally got the chance it didn't end up as a happily ever after. Through this event, we can learn that in life you have to be grateful for everything you can have and achieve.