Although fate controlled Madme Loisels life, she always seemed to see life as a glass half empty. The author of The necklace uses fate as an all controlling force that made Madame Loisels life a disappointment.
Madame Loisel dreamed of being famous, but fate would not let that happen. “But she was unhappy as though she had married beneath her”(1). Fate had it out for Madame Loisel from the start when she was born into a family of artisans. Then she wound up marrying a loving clerk but the reader can tell she does not really love him. She also loved jewels and clothes even though she did not love her husband “And these were the only things she loved”(1). Also fate made her lose her necklace that she had tried so hard to keep safe. “The necklace was no longer round her neck!”(2). Then, in order to pay off the necklace, she spent ten years working overtime. At the end fate just wanted to have a laugh at her expense, telling her that the necklace she tried so hard to replace was a fake.
Although Madame Loisel tried her hardest to fit in with the rich people, fate got the best of her. Maybe she was just meant to be a poor person. Even so, at least she got one night where she could shine.
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