THAT THING WAS ONLY WORTH A HUNDRED FRANCS?!?!

SUMMARY


In the story the Necklace Mathilde loirel finds herself with an invitation to a fancy ball but she has nothing to wear so her husband gives her some money which she then proceeds to use to buy a dress then she asks one of her friends if she could lend her a necklace of some sort so her friend lends her a beautiful looking diamond necklace. Mathilde thanks her friend goes to the party and enjoys herself and haves fun but then its time to leave, when she gets home she notices there was something odd
, she feels like she forgot something and then realizes that THE NECKLACE WAS GONE!!! Her husband starts looking for it everywhere, but the necklace was nowhere to be found, Mathilde starts to panic and so she tells her friend she broke the chain and that she would go repair it, this earns her an extra week and so with a few couple thousand francs and a huge loan from the bank ,she is finally able to buy a diamond necklace similar to the one she lost. She gives that one to her friend but now
she had another problem, she had to pay off her
loan from the bank so after a few years of hard
work and labor she is finally able to pay off the
money she owed the bank. Then one day while
Mathilde is in the park she spots her friend and
decides to say hi, her friends panics by looking
at Mathilde all tired and exhausted, Mathilde tells her what happened with the necklace and how she spent years paying off the money she borrowed and then her friend feels guilty as she tells Mathilde that the necklace was a fake and it was only worth a couple hundred francs.


In this short story one of the things that I liked most of all was how the author gives us a strong look at imagery and how just by describing the characters we can easily picture them in our head:

"She was prettier than them all, elegant, gracious, smiling and crazy with joy... All the men looked at her, asked her name, endeavored to introduced.”

The short story was really interesting and i really liked the little twist in the end of how Mathilde had done all that hard work to pay of a necklace that was worth only a couple hundred bucks.

FINAL THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS

After reading the short story The Necklace I was left with a queer feeling, what in the world just happened? I though that that was kind of messed up because in my opinion I think that Mathildes friend who gave her the necklace should have told her first that the necklace was a fake and that if anything happened to it she shouldn't really worry about it, but, seeing as how she did not tell her, Mathilde ended up giving her a real one that cost way more than the original, and that made Mathilde all weary and tired because she spent five years paying off that thing, i mean FIVE YEARS OF ONLY HARD WORK WITHOUT A BREAK, that's got to leave some one tired for a good amount of time. But also another way Mathilde could have avoided pure hard work and labor was by being responsible, she should have been more careful with that necklace and she should have been paying attention to it and keeping an eye on it at all times because if she had kept it safe she could have just returned and lived happy without any kind of punishment.