In Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" Madame Loisel is disconnected from a life which she finds common and mundane. Although she is "pretty and charming" she is restrained by the rigid class system of 19th century France. She longs for a different life. She wants all the comforts and trappings of the very wealthy. She is simply not satisfied with her middle class existence. She's not poor. After all, she has her own maid, a hard...
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