At the beginning of the story, Mathilde was selfish, ungrateful, and was always complaining about her life. After she lost her friend’s necklace and needed to work hard during ten years to get money to buy a new necklace for her friend, she blamed Madame Forestier for having miserable days since the lost of the necklace.
Mathilde also envy the other people because of their rich and was never happy with her life and the things she had. An example was when her husband won an invitation to the ball thinking