Mathilde as a Typically Selfish Character (The Necklace)

Have you ever thought that your life is not the life which you want? When your life is not going to be your dreamy life, human always tend to blame their life. Then their dreamy life makes them selfish. The Necklace is a short story that shows me both of those characters, the first is blame the ordinary undreamed life and the second is to be selfish because of the dreamy life.
The Necklace tells about a typically a poor life of a human that has a dream to be rich, in this case the character it self, “Mathilde” she thinks that her poor life was not made for her but she does not have any choice to change her poor life. It is suffered her and make her selfish.
Sometimes, we as a human never realize that what we have is a gift from god. We are never grateful and positive thinking about everything happens in our life. It is showed by the third paragraph “”when she sat for dinner at the round table covered with a three-days-old cloth, opposite her husband… She imagined, delicate meals, gleaming silver, tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age strange birds in faery forest; she imagined delicate food served in marvelous dishes, murmured gallantries, listened to with an inscrutable smile as one trifled with the rosy flesh of trout or wings of asparagus chicken.”” So wonderful what did she imagine, even though she is facing Scotch broth? Actually she wants another food that more delicious and expensive and she would not her food. Meanwhile if she considers to other people that poorer than her, maybe they are being hunger because of no food to eat.
Mathilde’s life makes her selfish; it is showed when her husband gives her an invitation to go to the party of her husband ministry. She refuses it because she does not have any beautiful dress as she said on the eight paragraphs, “”And what do you suppose I am to wear at such an affair?””, see what I mean? In this case Mathilde just thinks about herself, her appearance will be like what if she does not wear any appropriate dress, she will not looks bad and poor at the party, then on the others paragraph exactly on the fifteenth paragraphs, it shows her selfish again, “”I’m utterly miserable at not having any jewels not a single stone to wear” she replied.” I shall look absolutely no one. I would almost rather not to go to the party.”” Once again, she just thinks about herself is not she? She does not thinks about her husband feeling if she cancels to go to the party, meanwhile her husband has spent his saving money to buy gun but he realizes it to buy her wife’s dress.
On the others paragraph that shows her truly selfish is on the twenty seventh paragraphs, that is when the necklace lost, she does not do anything. While her husband is trying to find it by “went to the police station, to the newspapers, to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere that a ray of hope impelled him. She waited all day long, in the same state of bewilderment at this fearful catastrophe.”” She had lost the necklace but her husband should fight to find it. But her blaming finally self-addressed it seems at the end of the story on the fortieth paragraph when everything has changed and her life becomes so miserable she said that “”what would have happened if she had never lost those jewels. Who knows? Who knows? How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed to ruin or to save!” even though she blame herself, but she just blame why she lost the necklace is not her mistake want something that makes her life so misarble.
If she never thought to be rich and be grateful to this life, maybe she will not be so miserable than she have now. She will never be so selfish in wanting something that she cannot control it. If she just be grateful and be positive thinking, maybe her life would not be miserable.