Madame Loisel is the main character of Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" about a woman who longs to be wealthy. While it's easy to see that she is quite envious of the rich, it's hard to assign the terms, "jealous" or "greedy" when discussing her. At the beginning of the story Madame Loisel spends much of her time daydreaming about what it would be like to live the life of wealth and luxury. She yearns to break away from her...
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