Shame causes people to be unhappy. In the story "The Necklace"

Mathilde was a poor woman and she married and poor man. Mathilde was unhappy with her life because she wasn't living the life that she wanted to live. She wanted expensive things like "large, silent anterooms, decorated with oriental 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"(Manupassant 4). She also wanted "large drawing rooms draped in the most expensive silks, with fine end tables on which were placed knickknacks of inestimable value"(Manupassant 4). The l

Shame causes people to hide things from others. In "The Necklace" Mathilde borrowed a necklace from one of her friends and on the way home from the dinner party she loses it. Instead of telling her friend that she lost she hid it from here. So she had to borrow money from people to go buy another necklace. At the end of the story she runs into her friend that she borrowed the necklace from and to come to find out the necklace wasn't even real. When you hide things from others you're not hurting them you're hurting yourself. If she had told her friend that she lost her necklace then she wouldn't have had to go through the turmoil that she went through. In other words she should have been honest with her friend. She was so shame that she had lost her friend's necklace that she wanted to hide it from here so that she wouldn't think that she was a careless person

Shame cause people to feel guilty. Guilt is "a feeling of blameworthiness for having committed a crime or wrong"(Webster 223). In "The Necklace" Mathilde was a shame of the clothes that she had. Her husband and herself were invited to a dinner party, but she refused to go because she wanted a new dress. He fin

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