Book Summary: The Necklace

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Summary “The Necklace”

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls, into a family of clerks”. (176)

Married man both “prosperous and famous, a clerk in the Ministry of Eduaction “. (176)

She was ungrateful and unhappy as a woman who has come down on the world and oh how she can dream of priceless items , she couldn’t afford or have.

Madame Loisel had a well to do friend, a classmate of convent - school days whom she would no longer visit , because “she would feel distressed on returning home “. (177)

Her Husband did a thoughtful thing by getting her an invitation to an affair that maybe she would be thrilled about, but she proclaimed she didn’t have anything to wear
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“How strange and unpredictable life is! How little there is between happiness and misery!”. (182)

One sunday Mme loisel went to the park and she saw Mme Forestier and wasn’t sure to speak to her or not but she did and Mme Forestier didn’t recognize her for a second but then she gave a cry and said “Oh my poor Mathilde, how you’ve changed !” Loisel told her the situation she went through for the necklace she lost and Mme forestier was shocked and said “but mine was only paste”.

Guy De Maupassant Biography and short story connections

In the story The Necklace Madame Loisel went to a jeweler hunting for a similar necklace. (3)

“He takes her necklace to a jeweler who tells her that it is very valuable”. (178-180).

It’s a connection because in the short story Madame Loisel went to a jeweler hunting for a necklace , and in the biography Guy De Maupassant went to a jeweler to show him a valuable necklace.

The Necklace she was hunting for was for a similar one that her friend Madame Forestier lent her for a ball she was attending , and for the biography Lantin believed that his his wife’s jewelry were fakes because she could not have purchased those valuable

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