Part A What can be inferred about Mathilde's attitude toward the couple’s modest circumstances at the beginning of "The Necklace"?

She is grateful because she can always borrow from friends whatever she and her husband can't afford.

She is determined and believes one day she and her husband will be wealthy.

She values her comfortable home and loving husband more than material things.

She is dissatisfied because she values fine possessions over simple pleasures.
Question 2
Part B

Which sentence from "The Necklace" best supports the inference in Part A?

"She threw her arms round her friend's neck, kissed her with great emotion, then fled with her treasure."

"Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering, 'What do you want me to do with that?'"

"'Yes. You never noticed it, then! They were very similar.' And she smiled with proud and naive joy."

"And she answered, 'It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall look poverty-stricken. I would almost rather not go at all.'"

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning