You Get What You Get and You Don't Throw a Fit

by Liam Searcy

       Madame Loisel's poverty comes from a mixture of her unhappy, unsatisfied manner and fate cursing her to always be in a poor humble situation. This character in The Necklace lives for another life. Her downfall is unavoidable because of the social position in which fate has placed her.

       Madame Loisel will never be happy. She is a annoying girl who needs to grow up. “feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury. She suffered from the poorness of her house” She feels she is born for something better but she, in reality, will never acquire the outrageous things she wants and fulfill her dream. It is frustrating to watch her do this to herself. Because of pride she wanted the jewels. Because of pride she rushed outside quickly as not to be noticed by the rich women and lost the jewels. Because of pride she didn't tell her friend that she lost the necklace and ask for the price. She loses what she once had for a hope of something better like a dog with a bone looking in water and seeing his reflection then droping his bone for the reflection's and therefore loses his bone altogether.

        The main character would never be in this predicament if fate had not placed her in a poor family. “as though fate had blundered over, into a family of artisans” she is born into a place where she will never be rich even though that is her lifelong dream. Fate cannot claim the losing of the diamond necklace, because she made the hasty decision to run outside to not be seen. Poverty and her dream of riches cannot coexist so fate brings her unhappiness.

       There is no one factor that she could change to make everything right, it is a mixture of both. Her 10 years of labor is brought upon her by her own foolishness, pride and discontentment and the fate of a life in poverty.