endships. She would "weep whole days, with grief, regret, despair and misery"(692) after visiting Madame Forrester a old school friend who has had better financial fortune that Mathilde. De Maupassant comments on her greed by stating that she loves only clothes and jewels and "feels that she is made for them"(692).
             Mathilde is portrayed as an unsympathetic character possessing all the detestable traits of greed. She is selfish and cruel as she "flings the invitation petulantly across the table"(692) at her husband as he presents her with a coveted invitation to a society party. Mathilde shows willful determinat
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