In Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace", creates in Malthlide Loisel, the main character, a self-absorbed wife who feels as though she deserves the world at any cost and how she faces the consequences of her selfishness. Inevitably, her self-centeredness causes her to become blind to the real world ...

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