1: Characters
Mathilde Loisel: A young, discontent lower middle class woman. She is typical of the kinds of main protagonists used by French Realist writers at this time and is used to explore the deeper meanings of everyday life.
Monsieur Loisel: A lowly middle class clerk. He is the ordinary everyman. His speech gives away his lowly class.
Madame Forestier: Mathilde's upper-class friend. She is symbolic of the shallowness of the upper classes, symbolized through her fake necklace