The Necklace
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: The Necklace
Pages: 11
Rating: 3 stars
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Ten years of suffering is the cost of having pleasure for only one night! In “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant
presents Mathilde Loisel, an attractive, charming but vacuous and selfish middle class lady transforms to selfness,
poor, satisfied and hard-working lady. Even though, Mathidle owns a comfortable home and married to a faithful
and kind husband, Monsieur Loisel, who seeks her happiness and satisfaction, she was ungrateful to the things
that she had been given, because her greed and desire of wealth had captured her thoughts and blurred the real
meaning of happiness in her perspective. Mathidle spends most of her time surfing in her day dreams of being
wealthy and suffering from accepting the reality, because her imagination was more than she could not afford.
One day Mathidle’s husband brought his wife an invitation for a fancy party, but as a result of their low income,
Mathidle’s was ashamed to wear flowers as decoration, so she decided to borrow an expensive looking necklace
from a friend of her, Madame Forestier. After attending the fabulous party and spending a memorable great time
looking stunningly beautiful, Mathidle discovers that she had lost the expensive necklace that she borrowed, so
she decides to buy a similar copy of the necklace to her friend after loaning an enormous amount of money and
narrowing the house outcome. The author surprises his readers with a perfectly detailed twist at the end of the
story. Losing the necklace was a turning point in Mathidle’s life and the best thing that ever happened to her.
All that glitters is not gold. A lesson Mathilde Loisel had learned during her journey of discovering the greed.
Greed is a curse that blocks people’s vision from seeing the realistic value of things...