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Rapaciousness In The Necklace
In today’s world, people have a hunger for the things they do not, or can not, have; but for some people this greediness will make or break them. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel’s rapaciousness will break her down until she is skin and bones, but she refuses to learn her lesson and accept that she will never be a rich, sought after woman. Like many people, Madame Loisel craved many things that she was neither rich enough nor known enough to obtain. “She had no proper wardrobe, no jewels, nothing. And those were the only things she loved”(Maupassant,295). Madame Loisel also wanted to fit in with the wealthy crowd, so one can imagine that when she was invited to a party at by the Minister of Education, she would have
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