"She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling...All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry." She felt as if she deserved all the things that other girls have. She wanted to feel like she fitted in, but she decided that being selfish and craving the richness she lost what she was responsible for. She was responsible for taking care of the necklace she borrowed. "She removed the wraps, which covered her shoulders, before the glass, so as once more to see herself in all her glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry. She had no longer the necklace around her neck!" She felt as if she was everything she wanted to be, but the way she acted made a turn in the end.

The Necklace