Madame Loisel’s perspective changes as she and her husband leave the ball because she is reminded of her diminished status after her husband covers her in simple wraps. This contrast between her previously enjoyed success and beauty at the ball and the reality of her life becomes more apparent as she leaves, highlighting a sense of loss and disillusionment.
The Diamond Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
The night of the ball arrived. Madame Loisel was a great success. She was prettier than any other woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling and wild with joy. All the men looked at her, asked her name, sought to be introduced. All the attaches of the Cabinet wished to waltz with her.
She was remarked by the minister himself.
She danced with rapture, with passion, intoxicated by pleasure, forgetting all in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness comprised of all this homage, admiration, these awakened desires and of that sense of triumph which is so sweet to woman’s heart.
She left the ball about four o’clock in the morning. Her husband had been sleeping since midnight in a little deserted anteroom with three other gentlemen whose wives were enjoying the ball.
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How does Madame Loisel’s perspective change as she and her husband leave the ball?
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She concludes that she does not like attending balls as much as she thought.
She concludes that she does not like attending balls as much as she thought.
She regrets making such a sensation of herself at the ball.
She regrets making such a sensation of herself at the ball.
She realizes that she has selfishly made her husband wait while she enjoyed herself.
She realizes that she has selfishly made her husband wait while she enjoyed herself.
She is reminded of her diminished status after her husband covers her in simple wraps.
She is reminded of her diminished status after her husband covers her in simple wraps.
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