Selfish Vanity In Maupassant's The Necklace

In the Bible, Matthew 19:16, 21-22 says, "Someone came to Jesus with this question: 'Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?' Jesus told him, 'If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.' But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he had many possessions." Just as the parables that Jesus taught throughout the Gospels had valuable life lessons, as does Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace." The theme of selfish vanity vs. profitable hard work is revealed by Maupassant through Madame Loisel's internal conflict developed from comparison beginning at a young age. Guy de Maupassant demonstrates that one cannot truly discern how to stand behind his or her personal morality until confronted with the inability to conform to the expectations of society.
From the introduction of Maupassant's writing, it is made clear that Madame Loisel has always wanted to do nothing, yet have everything. Maupassant satirically describes her blah lifestyle, saying, "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury." Sick of being misunderstood and undervalued, Madame Loisel refuses to attend the
She is confronted with that realization, " On Sunday, as she had gone for a walk along"… when Madame Loisel catches slight of the woman who lent her the necklace that began the journey of the consequence leading to Madame Loisel's final outlook on life. Irony plays into the ending of Maupassant's, "The Necklace", when Madame Loisel discovers that her once idolized elementary school-mate, Madame Forestier only payed up tp five-hundred francs for her originally borrowed necklace. This realizations reveals that comparison is a trap and hard work is always the higher road, because vanity is fictitious and leads to