The Necklace Essay

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Someone once said,”If they stand by you during the bad times, they deserve to be there during the good times.The short story,”The Necklace” was written by Guy De Maupassant. “The Necklace” is about a girl who is very materialistic, who had lost a necklace which she had been borrowed by a friend. She works years to pay back the money to replace it. Her husband, pays most of it off himself. Therefore, Monsieur Loisel, the husband, is loyal, hardworking, and grateful, he is a loving man.
In the short story, Monsieur Loisel is loyal to his wife.First of all, after Mathilde loses the necklace, Mathilde and her husband are worries. He decides to do something about it. “And he went out. She remained in her evening clothes, lacking strength to get out of bed, huddled on a chair, without volition or thought,”(Maupassant 6). Next, they need $36,000 francs to buy the necklace that they had lost. A supportive husband, Monsieur Loisel sacrifices his own francs to pay for her mistake. “Loiesl possessed eighteen thousand left to him by his father, he intends to borrow the rest,”(7). Monsieur Loisel spent $18,000 francs to replace Madame
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Mathilde and Monsieur Loisel needs to pay back the money for the necklace, so he starts to more jobs to gather money. “Her husband works in the evenings at putting straight a merchant's accounts, and often at night he did copying at twopence-halfpenny a page,”(8). This shows that Monsieur Loisel is hardworking because he starts working nights just to pay back the money for the necklace. Monsieur Loisel works very hard, but mathilde only thinks about the time that she was at the party.”But sometimes, her husband was at the office, she sat down by the window and thought of the evening long ago,”(8). Clearly, Monsieur Loisel works hard and his main priority is to make money. Mathilde just remembers the night she lost the necklace. Hardworking, Monsieur Loisel is also

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