Dissatisfaction In The Necklace
In “New Directions”, “The Necklace”, and “Fragile Self- Worth” it is shown how dissatisfaction can be unhealthy when you make materialism a major part of your lifestyle. In the necklace the main character, Mathilde a young lady living in a french society envies the higher class. Being that she is a beautiful woman, she feels that she is deserving of more luxury and desires to be pampered. With there being a fancy event occurring, she felt the need of wearing something that would help her be admired and envied by the higher class society. “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the attributes of a gracious life, every luxury should rightly have been.” The setting of this short story is in France during the 1800’s. In this era, women
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The following stories and article: “ The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, “ Fragile Self-Worth” by Tim Kasser, illustrate the effect of how dissatisfaction can be unhealthy and negative if you are more concentrated on the materialistic things in life. In “The Necklace”, the main character was focused on how she deserved elegant clothings and accessories so people can admire and her beauty when she didn’t realize how much her husband admired her hard work and especially her beauty. “The New Directions” is setted during the 1900’s were the expectations of women were limited. Due to many dissatisfaction situations occurring, it was difficult for the main character to find a reasonable job that would fit her needs so, she decided to create her own business. Not only did her business benefit the hard-working men, it also provided herself and her family with money. In each era there will always be dissatisfaction depending on the needs and the social standards to uptight for anyone to really reach and still be happy. In all three works someone is faced with disatisfaction in their materialistic state in life. All wanting more for themselves, the situation is negative and it stumps many feeling unacomplished because that is what society is telling them that they need material things in life to be happy content .In conclusion , although dissatisfaction can motivate some for the most part it just depresses people when
The following stories and article: “ The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, “ Fragile Self-Worth” by Tim Kasser, illustrate the effect of how dissatisfaction can be unhealthy and negative if you are more concentrated on the materialistic things in life. In “The Necklace”, the main character was focused on how she deserved elegant clothings and accessories so people can admire and her beauty when she didn’t realize how much her husband admired her hard work and especially her beauty. “The New Directions” is setted during the 1900’s were the expectations of women were limited. Due to many dissatisfaction situations occurring, it was difficult for the main character to find a reasonable job that would fit her needs so, she decided to create her own business. Not only did her business benefit the hard-working men, it also provided herself and her family with money. In each era there will always be dissatisfaction depending on the needs and the social standards to uptight for anyone to really reach and still be happy. In all three works someone is faced with disatisfaction in their materialistic state in life. All wanting more for themselves, the situation is negative and it stumps many feeling unacomplished because that is what society is telling them that they need material things in life to be happy content .In conclusion , although dissatisfaction can motivate some for the most part it just depresses people when