Henri-Rene-Albert-Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893), one of the major nineteenth-century French naturalist writers, wrote a timeless short story called "The Necklace." Even though The Necklace was written in 1884, the main character, Mathilde, portrayed in this story has similar behaviors to an average woman in the 21st Century, but her social and financial status is dissimilar.
Mathilde may live in a different century, but her behaviors are not so different from a 21st Century woman. She frequently dreams and fantasizes about living in a mansion where she is surrounded by elegant rooms with expensive curtains, end tables, oriental tapestries, and other tangible objects. Beside the consistent daydreaming episodes, she also feels that she is "destined for all delicacies and luxuries (5)." Because she has this illusion in her head, she is consistently chasing after a materialistic ghost to fulfill her starvation in delicacies and luxuries. Because of this ghost, she loses her......
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