Refer to one or more details from the story to support your understanding of why Mathilde is unsatisfied with her life at the beginning of the story- both from ideas that are directly started and ideas you inferred from clues in the text.
Mathilde simply isn't satisfied with her middle-class life. She fantasizes about another life that she feels she deserves. Works of Literary Realism often focus on the theme of social class, and "The Necklace" is certainly an example of this. Mme. Loisel's greatest concern is her own social class, especially the way she is perceived in society in virtue of her appearance and attire. It is her focus on social class that causes her to borrow a necklace to wear to a party to which she and her husband have been invited; in an ironic twist, this very necklace results in them becoming even lower in social class when they lose it and must work to pay for a replacement
