What Is The Theme Of Pride In The Necklace

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Pride is a word that we all know very well, and rarely admit if it 's a characteristic we posses. In the short stories "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Necklace," the two main characters have a strong sense of pride. In their own way each woman is manipulative, deceitful, and judgmental. As we read the stories we can tell how each woman only cared about only themselves and their happiness.They both live simple and ok lives but are not happy with what they have. Both not caring about the consequences, will do anything to get want they want. Although, pride can be seen sometimes as something positive, if used in the right way. In each particular story, we see how being prideful can turn your life from something positive into something negative.
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Mathilde had a loving husband, who provided the necessities for her and a decent home. But that was never enough for her. In her head, she felt she was born to live a life of luxury. When her husband tells her he has an invite to a ball, she refuses to go because she has no clothes: “…have no dress, and, for that reason, cannot go to the ball. Give your invitation to some fellow-clerk whose wife is better provided than I am." (de Maupassant) Mathilde 's pride and shallowness will not allow her to be grateful and just go to the ball. She manages to manipulate her husband into buying her a dress, and also borrowing a fancy necklace from a friend. After losing the necklace, Mathilde decides to just lie to her friend, and go into debt by buying a new one. After ten years of working hard and downgrading things in her life. To repay the debt of the necklace. Mathilde and her husband are now poor and struggling to make ends meet. Her greed and pride got her to where she is at the end of the story. Even going through what she went through, she still fantasizes about her desire for wealth and

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