The grass always looks greener on the other side. This saying has varied implications and can be explicated in every day’s life occurrences. The axiom implies that the grass on the neighbor’s lawn looks greener than in ones’ own. In a figurative sense, the adage can be taken to mean that one always wishes to have what belongs to another person. This implies that people are covetous in nature and that when they acquire a coveted object, the desire for that object diminishes. In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”, the same questions about the challenge of coveting what one does not have arises. The meaning of the necklace usually keeps the reader guessing as it what is its real meaning. Madame Loisel , does not value her lifestyle and heritage, and feels that she, “was by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerk”, and yet desires to be equal to the great, rich ladies(77). For Madame Loisel the grass is always greener on the other side, yet the desire for greener grass comes with severe consequences. The grass is usually greener, until one desires their neighbor’s goods. When that occurs, then ones lawn looses the appeal it initially had. Thus, instead of people appreciating what they already have, they result to covet other people’s possession. When this assertion is evaluated Vis a Vis Madame Loisel, it is found to be true. Before Madame Loisel borrowed the necklace, the grass was greener on her side; she was a much happier woman. However, all that changed the moment she gained sight of the other side. By borrowing the necklace she gained sight and knowledge about the world of the rich. Madame Loisel feels that destiny had dealt her unfairly by making her be born in a middle class family with “no expectations, no means of being known, understood, or loved”(77). She covets the life of the rich and thus desires to challenge her social status. Madame Loisel’s covetousness is not born instantly, but develops over time and is manifested through dreams and fits of jealous fantasies; she spends a good part of her life dreaming and fantasizing about the rich. Thus, chance to go to the ball dance emerges she sees it as the ultimate opportunity to gain access into the world of the rich, a world “she felt she… [was] made for”(78). Madam Loisel envies the rich and thus wants to escape her poverty ridden life as there is “nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich”(79). She fails to appreciate the “natural flowers… [that are] very stylish at this time of the year” and prefers luxury ball gowns and diamond necklaces worn by the rich(79). Such cravings for other people’s possessions come at a price as evidenced through Madam Loisel’s life. One ball dance evening of “intoxication with… triumph of her beauty in the glory of…success “(79) turns into ten years of “horrible existence of the needy”(81). Madam Loisel has to pay “dreadful debt”; the price of her selfish desires for the lost necklace (80). Furthermore, when she wakes up from her world of illusion she realizes that valuelessness of acquiring the coveted object. She turns into the “plain goodwife”, albeit with “heroism …[on] her part”(81). Questions abound