Mme. Loisel is characterized as a woman unhappy with her life because she feels she was meant to live a more glamorous one. From the beginning of the story, she imagines herself surrounded by finer things, even though her actual life is very ordinary.
When her husband comes home with the invitation to the party, Mme. Loisel initially refuses to go because she complains that she has nothing to wear. M. Loisel selflessly offers her his savings to buy a dress. She borrows the jewels that ultimately lead to her downfall.
At the party, she is the happiest she's ever been because she is viewed as a society woman in her beautiful dress and gorgeous jewels, (which is what she has believed she should be all along). She prolongs the evening, not wanting it to end, and then ultimately and irrevocably changes her and her husband's lives forever by losing the necklace.
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