The Necklace

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The story "The Necklace" was talking about how a women named Mathilde that was so selfish she wanted more then what she had. The story was she was a middle class and that she wasn't rich like her friends. She had kept crying to her husband about how she don't have jewelry and pretty dresses to wear. One day she had got invited to a party and she didn't have a pretty dress to wear she went to her husband and told him about the party and how she don't go a dress, so he gave her 400 acres for a new pretty dress. She had got the dress then she noticed that she don't have jewelry so she went back to him and started crying "oh honey I don"t have jewelry to the party", and he told her "why don't you ask your friend Mme, Forestier", she was like oh why not . The next day she went to Mme,Forestier and picked out a necklace she liked and toke it. During the party Mathilde got drunk and when she got home she noticed that the necklace was gone so she had tracked her foot steps and she couldn't find it so she went and brought another one that cost so much money she lost everything she had then after 10 years she payed it off then told her friend and her friend told her it was fake. …show more content…
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