Mathilde had made this mistake by concealing her status. She always wanted to be rich and finally one night she had the chance to achieve that by looking stunning at the ball and attracting the attention of everyone at the ball. After losing the necklace, she did not want her social status to be horrible, as many would have thought that she had not lost the necklace, but had simply stolen it. Mathilde had maintained her wealthy status and had paid the price for her false status by working and paying off her unwanted debts. As De Maupassant once again describes Mathilde, but not as the person she wanted to be known as. “Madame Loisel seemed old now. She had become the kind of woman often found in poor households: harsh, greedy, and rude” (178). Her life would have been much easier if Mathilde had not faked the incident and confessed the truth to Forestier and only had five hundred dollars..