OL How does Maupassant develop the theme that dissatisfaction and pride can lead to ruin? He shows how Madame Forestier's reaction to Mathilde's request to borrow the necklace makes Mathilde feel insecure. He shows that Mathilde's unwillingness to act according to her class causes her to lose her most valuable possessions. He reveals that Mathilde's husband's eagerness to please his wife leads to the family's demise. He reveals that Mathilde and her husband only sink into poverty because Mathilde will not admit to Madame Forestier that she lost the necklace.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet