Mathilde doesn't have luxurious clothes or sparkling jewels, but she is keen on attending high-class parties and eager to experience the daily life of aristocratic women, so she does not hesitate to invest heavily. As a result, I accidentally lost my necklace and started my ten-year debt repayment career.
The rosy fingernails were worn off, and she became a combative woman from a poor family, so strong and rude that she was not recognized when she greeted Mrs. Foretstier. The most ironic plot is in the last sentence of the novel, "Ouch! My poor Mathilde! My rope is fake.
Up to 500 francs! Mathilde tried to pay her debts for ten years, but was told to borrow a fake necklace. It must be hard for her to accept this fact, but it did happen to her. Mo Bosang took this opportunity to satirize those vain women, and at the same time gave them the consequences of vanity.
2. Leusser
As a junior employee of the Ministry of Education, Lowasel would lift the lid of the washbasin at dinner and say with satisfaction, "Ah! What a delicious stew! There is nothing better in the world. " His words were felt by most small staff at that time. They may have great ambitions, but at the same time they meet their living conditions and will try their best to like everything in life.
When he has a party invitation from the upper class, he will have some vanity, thinking that it is a very glorious and proud thing to be invited, and at the same time this mood urgently needs to be affirmed by others. This is another manifestation of the narrow psychology of the small staff group.
When the necklace was lost and needed to be bought again, Loisel signed a lot of loan agreements and promised many conditions that would ruin him, dealing with usurers and various money lenders for the benefit. He ruined the rest of his life, and whether he could repay it or not, he risked signing an IOU. His behavior is also the behavior of most people. When a person is desperate, he will bypass any road ahead.
Loisel signed promissory notes in disorder because he could get through the immediate difficulties first, and the consequences of these promissory notes were not within his consideration for the time being. His behavior faithfully reflects the behavior of most people and is a typical representative of typical people.
Creative background of necklace
65438- 1980 in France, capitalism developed viciously, the big bourgeoisie took power, plundered the people, government corruption prevailed, and social morality declined. The decadent life of the bourgeoisie and the mercenary moral concept have influenced the whole society, and the pursuit of pleasure and vanity has become a bad social atmosphere.
This social atmosphere is also common among the petty bourgeoisie. Because this class is extremely unstable in capitalist society, they always want to get rid of this situation and join the upper class. But only a few people succeeded, and most of them fell into a more tragic experience in the competition of capitalism.