The Necklace

        The short story The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, is about a woman who, along with her husband, is invited to a ball being held at the Ministry. However, she comes from a low-class household and is ashamed because she has nothing nice to wear to the ball. Her husband decides to give her four-hundred francs to buy a nice dress. After buying the dress, she is still not satisfied. She goes to a friend and borrows an expensive diamond necklace to wear to the ball.
        Later that night, she loses her friends necklace and is forced to spend a large amount of money on a replacement. She and her husband borrowed money from numerous people so that they could afford it. For the next ten years, they struggled to pay back the loans required to buy the replacement necklace. They would work day and night to get paid as much as they possibly could.
        Ten years later, the woman stumbles into her friend in public, and decides to confess the truth about the necklace that she lost. Unfortunately, her friend said that the necklace was an imitation diamond and was only worth about five-hundred francs, which was just about the same price as the dress she had initially purchased. If she were satisfied with the dress, she would not have had to go through the trouble of paying for the replacement she lost. The dress simply was not enough...


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