The protagonist in this story in my opinion would be Mathilda as it revolves around her. Mathilda is a dynamic character which is supported by her changing her quality of life to make up for paying off the necklace. As supported by ‘She had become the woman of impoverished households -- strong and hard and rough.’ Where change is quite sudden as the story leaps ten years into the future! She’s best described as round as she shows the struggle, yet she overcomes to unfortunately find it hadn’t unnecessary, but she shows many sides of her personality during the piece. The author uses indirect characterization but it can be easily inferred as Mathilda’s wants to be different from everyone else, so breaking out of family tradition she marries a poorer clerk. As to a rich businessman as it mentions briefly, but it is certain throughout the piece that her expectations of glamour are far-fetched which makes a conflict within her.
The antagonist in this piece in my opinion is the necklace. It is clearly shown to be faulty as ‘...you have broken the clasp of her necklace…’. Though nowhere the piece is there evidence that the necklace could've broken without a weakness in the design! The necklace is a flat character as we only see it’s appearance in the piece, but it isn’t static because it does break and get lost which changes its appearance quite significantly, but other than that the necklace is a quite void character with no depth, yet it disappears halfway through the passage! The conflict it causes is a vast amount of money the protagonist's husband loses, but it’s eventually fixed.
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