Forestier, a rich woman who can probably lend her something. Loisel suggests she go see her friend Mme. It's not too long before Mathilde throws another fit, though, this time because she has no jewels. Mathilde asks for 400 francs, and he agrees. Loisel doesn't know what to do, and offers to buy his wife a dress, so long as it's not too expensive. She doesn't have anything nice to wear, and can't possibly go! How dare her husband be so insensitive? M. Loisel has gone to a lot of trouble to get the invitation, but Mathilde's first reaction is to throw a fit. Loisel comes home with an invitation to a fancy ball thrown by his boss, the Minister of Education. She envisions footmen, feasts, fancy furniture, and strings of rich young men to seduce. Mathilde is so convinced she's meant to be rich that she detests her real life and spends all day dreaming and despairing about the fabulous life she's not having. She's got looks and charm, but had the bad luck to be born into a family of clerks, who marry her to another clerk (M. At the beginning of the story, we meet Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class girl who desperately wishes she were wealthy.
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