


I would almost rather not go to this party." We see Mme. "It annoys me not to have a jewel, not a single stone, to put on. Loisel receives gifts of grandeur, out of the generosity and sacrifice of her husband, it is not enough for her. And she loved nothing else she felt herself made for that only." Even when Mme. "She had no dresses, no jewelry, nothing. Loisel, "suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury." Although she has an adoring husband and more to be thankful for than many others, she weeps "all day long from chagrin, from regret, from despair, and from distress." She weeps because she has placed her value in the amount of wealth she does not possess. We are told immediately in the exposition that the main character, Mme.
