My reaction to the story was that Mathilde was a women who only cared about her image. She wouldn't stop at anything to keep up the appearance that she was wealthy. However, when she lost the necklace that her friend had given her, she went at lengths to replace her old one. That shows that she is a very driven person. However, she is a greedy person, for example, when her friend offered her necklaces her comment was, "Is this all?" That was the one thing in this story that did disgust. Everything else I could understand, but she was too proud and cared about the way other people saw her, more than she cared about those around her.
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