The Necklace

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The story the necklace is about a young lady named Mathilde Loisel and her husband living a modest lifestyle. Somewhere along the line she begins to desire more out life materialistically. One day she gets invited to a fancy ball and wants to dress to impress, since there would be other wealthy people attending the ball. Due to this desire she borrows a pretty necklace from one of her wealthy friends Madame Forestier. Under assumption Loisel assumes the diamond necklace she borrowed was real and very expensive. During the ball Loisel loses the necklace and instead of being honest with her friend she goes out and buys a replacement necklace that looks precisely like the one she originally had and returned it to her friend. After years of strenuous exertion, heartache, and struggle Mathilde Loisel is told …show more content…

This also showed that wealth and status cannot buy true happiness and peace. Being honest may have not brought the wealth Madame Loisel wanted but it would have produced happiness in the end. At the end of novel after Loisel finds out that the necklace was never real it then commences to click that her and her husband hard work was in vain. Another edification in this is to be content and grateful with the things given to you and appreciate them because love, family, and jubilance hold a greater value than money and materialistic things. In the end it was evident that Loisel missed out on her youth and no longer had the opportunity to have the family she wanted. A simple truth could have avoided what seemed to be a complete change of life for Madame Loisel and her husband. Something as minuscule as a necklace ruined what could have been a good life for her and her husband. It accentuates on the conception that even when the matter is small, to still be honest because if not it can turn into something way bigger and create avoidable

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