Mathilde had made that mistake by hiding her status. She always wanted to be rich and finally one night she had the chance to do it by looking beautiful at the ball and attracting the attention of everyone present. After losing the necklace she didn't want her social status to seem horrible as many would think she hadn't lost the necklace, but instead she had simply stolen it. Mathilde had maintained her rich status and paid the price for her false status by working and paying off her unwanted debts. As De Maupassant describes Mathilde once again, but not as the person she wanted to be known as. Madame Loisel looked old now. She had become the type of woman often found in poor families: harsh, greedy, and uncouth” (178). Her life would have been much simpler if Mathilde hadn't staged what happened and confessed the truth to Forestier and didn't have to do anything other than five hundred