What is the summary of 'The Necklace' by guy de maupassant?

Answer 1

"The Necklace" is a short story about Madame Loisel, who borrows a necklace to wear to a fancy party and loses it. To replace it, she and her husband sacrifice their comfortable life and struggle to pay off the debt over many years, only to discover that the original necklace was actually fake. The story conveys the theme of the destructive nature of greed and the importance of humility.

Answer 2

Basically it's about this womans greed and how she completlely takes advantage of her husband, spending money on gowns and the sort. Then she asks her friend for some jewlery, she decides on this necklace and was so happy, then she ended up losing it, and instead of telling her friend she had lost it they spent all they money buying a replacement. Years later she is working as a maid, having lost her middle class status and she found her old friend. There she told her that the necklace as a fake, whereas the one she had replaced it with was a real one. Then she goes off and blames her friend for all her troubles and the current position she was in, when if she had just admitted she had lost the thing, she would have been fine.

A:

"The Necklace" tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. When Mathilde was little, she always imagined herself in a high social position with wonderful jewels. However, when she grows up, she has nothing and marries a lowly clerk who is obsessed with making her happy.

Through lots of begging at work, he is able to get two invitations to the Ministry of Education's party. Mathilde is upset, for she has nothing to wear. Using money that he was saving to buy a rifle, he lets Mathilde buy a fancy dress. Mathilde also wants jewels to wear with it. Since they have no money left, her husband suggests that she borrow something from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. Mathilde picks out the fanciest jewel necklace that she can find. After attending the Ministry of Education's party, Mathilde finds out that she has lost the necklace.

Mathilde and her husband then have to work for ten years to come up with the 36,000 francs to buy a replacement necklace. After losing everything, having to work, and forcing her husband to work two jobs, Mathilde sees Madame Forestier walking down the street and tells her that the necklace she returned to her was actually a replacement. Madame Forestier is surprised and tells Mathilde that the original necklace was actually a copy, worth only 500 francs.

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