Alternate Ending Of The Necklace Essay

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After Madame Forestier told her the necklace was fake she turned pale. “ What! It looks so real though!” Mathilda exclaimed. “I know. It was so beautiful for a fake piece of jewelry.” Mrs. Forestier said. “ I can’t believe that you payed 36,000 francs for that!” Mrs Forestier replied. “ Well since you didn’t even have a real one, and I payed for that with my hard earned money You should give it back to me!” Mathilda said angrily. “ Well you gave it to me, so it’s mine!” Mrs Forestier argued. “No, I payed for it and...and well... I deserve to have it because I worked so hard to pay for it!” Mathilda answered. “I’m going to go get my husband!”

Later that day, she came back with her husband. “Tell this lady how I...I mean we deserve that necklace.” She told her husband. “ Well we did work hard to pay for it, and maybe we can replace it with a fake like the one you had before?” He exclaimed. “ I completely disagree. I was lied to for ten years and you did give it to me.” Mrs. Forestier argued. “ You’re rich and can afford that and we couldn’t so we need it more.” Her husband replied. He felt anger set in and felt useless. …show more content…

He began by asking her why she didn’t by a real necklace in the first place, while she snuck over to her purse at which she saw the box that the necklace was held in inside. She grabbed the necklace and ran as fast as she could until she was out of sight. Mrs. Forestier saw her running and tried to stop her, but she was already gone and she didn’t know where she went. Her husband ran after her, but by the time he found her she was in a taxi leaving him to find his own way out of the

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