Greed and Cosequences
"The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant and "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence have two women in these stories that show no care or concern for anyone but themselves. Hester and Mathilde both had families that they truly did not love. And they were only involved with them for social reasons and to have their selfish needs provided. They finally righted the way they lived but only because they lost something or someone of importance to them. Mathilde always thought that she should be someone of wealth or at the very least married someone who was rich. She was a beautiful woman that had all the tastes of a family with great prosperity. Only she was not prosperous as she married a clerk. Maupassant writes that Mathilde "...let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instructions" (Maupassant Page 976). She never married for love but married for what she had to settle for. A woman does not let herself become married, should be for love. "She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that" (Page 976). So Mathilde could not love her husband for who he was, she only loved material possessions. Possessions she could not have. Mathilde had all the tastes of exce
As well as Mathilde, Hester did not love the ones she was supposed to. I should almost rather not go at all" (Page 978). Receiving this generous gift was still not enough for Hester's tastes. Hester spent the money carelessly and quickly. The night of the event came and Mathilde was a hit with everyone. Showing that Paul was doing this all for his mother and now that she is a rich woman she lost her first born that she finally learned to love. But instead of investing it wisely to come out of debt, she foolishly spends it, showing a lack of common sense and care for the rest of the family. He had no money left to give, so he sent Mathilde to her friends to borrow jewels to wear. "Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so" (Page 873). Which happened to be the same amount of money that her husband was setting aside for gun for himself. "She had become a woman of impoverished households. Mathilde was not satisfied with just going but her selfish conceited ways only wanted more. All because of a necklace that was supposedly of great importance.
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