Question

Both Madame and Mr. Loisel reveal something about their character. Can you pick out the words that describe them the best from those given in the tables below? Pick up lines from the story to illustrate you choice.

contented, practical, trusting, ambitious, simple, caring, understanding, materialistic, honest, dishonest, heroic, hardworking, helpful, down to earth, proud, supportive, cruel, greedy, dissatisfied, daydreamer

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Person	Extracts from the story	What it tells us about the person
1. Madame Loisel	1.	1. She was dissatisfied with her married life. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
2. Mr. Loisel		1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
3. Madame Forestier		1. 2.

Answer 1

Person	Extracts from the story	What it tells us about the person
Madame Loisel	1. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.	She was dissatisfied with her married life.
	2. She would have liked so much to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.	Ambitious
	3. When she sat down to dinner…opposite her husband, who uncovered the soup tureen and declared with a delighted air, "Ah, the good soup…she thought of dainty dinners.	Materialistic
	4 She felt this and wished to escape so as not to be remarked by the other women, who were enveloping themselves in costly furs.	Proud
	5. her heart throbbed with an immoderate desire	Greedy
	6. She sat down near the window and she thought of that gay evening of long ago, of that ball where she had been so beautiful and so admired. What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows?	Daydreamer
	7. She washed the dishes, using her dainty fingers and rosy nails on greasy pots and pans. She washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line…	Hardworking
Mr. Loisel	1. Her husband, who uncovered the soup tureen and declared with a delighted air, "Ah, the good soup! I don't know anything better than that,"	Contented, down-to-earth,
	2. "You might wear natural flowers," said her husband. "They're very stylish at this time of year. For ten francs you can get two or three magnificent roses."	Simple
	3. "How stupid you are!" her husband cried. "Go look up your friend, Madame Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels. You're intimate enough with her to do that."	Practical
	4. Loisel held her back, saying: "Wait a bit. You will catch cold outside. I will call a cab."	Caring
	5. "I shall go back on foot," said he, "over the whole route, to see whether I can find it." 6. He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it; and, frightened by the trouble yet to come, by the black misery that was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of all the physical privations and moral tortures that he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, laying upon the jeweller’s counter thirty-six thousand francs.	Heroic
	7. Her husband worked evenings, making up a tradesman's accounts, and late at night he often copied manuscript for five sous a page.	Hardworking, supportive
Madame Forestier	1. Madame Forestier went to a wardrobe with a mirror, took out a large jewel box, brought it back, opened it and said to Madame Loisel: "Choose, my dear."	Understanding, helpful, trusting
	2. When Madame Loisel took back the necklace Madame Forestier said to her with a chilly manner: "You should have returned it sooner; I might have needed it."	Cruel