She suffered constantly, feeling herself destined for all delicacies and luxuries. She suffered because of her grim apartment with its drab walls, threadbare furniture, ugly curtains. All such things, which most women in her situation would not even have noticed, tortured her and filled her with despair. The sight of the young country girl who did her simple housework awakened in her only a sense of desolation and lost hopes. She daydreamed of large, silent anterooms, decorated with oriented tapestries and lighted by high bronze floor lamps, with two elegant valets in short culottes dozing in large armchairs under the effects of forced-air heaters. She imagined large drawing rooms draped in the most expensive silks, with fine end tables on which were placed knickknacks of inestimable value. She dreamed of the perfume of the dainty private rooms, which were designed only for intimate tete -tetes with the closest of friends, who because of their achievements and fame would make her the envy of all other women.
Guy de Maupassant's character Mathilde Loisel in "The Necklace,"" is a young beautiful woman with a self absorbed, tortured soul longing for wealth and prestige (her grim apartment with its drab walls, threadbare furniture, ugly curtains). Mathilde believes this life is a poor pathetic existence, Mathilde believes she deserves beautiful, bright extravagant décor, what a life for her to be living with all the youth and beauty she possess. She is sickened by the thought of her merely being a housewife in this dark and depressing apartment. I believe the author is trying to express that one is never satisfied with what they have. Mathilde does not see the blessings around her; she only sees the hatefulness she believes that destiny has placed upon her.
Guy de Maupassant is demonstrating Mathilde's high standards when he says: .
(She daydreamed of large, silent anterooms, decorated with oriental tapestries and lighted high bronze floor lamps).
