In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," Monsieur Loisel is a clerk at the Ministry of Education. As a result, they are a middle class couple with no prosperity or prominence, which deeply affects Mathilde's dreams of being rich, having beautiful clothes and jewelery, and attending high class parties. In fact, when he receives the invitation to the ball, he believes that his wife will be happy to go to an elegant party, which shows him as a generous and loving husband who wants to make his wife happy.
