Many of the men wanted to waltz together. She decides on a diamond necklace in a black satin case.Īdmiring her look, she is finally happy and ready for a ball. Mathilde spends a long time trying on each piece of jewelry until she finds the perfect one. Forestier kindly agrees and lets her choose from a diverse collection. She consents and goes to her friend’s house to borrow a piece of jewelry for the ball. Loisel once again comes up with a great solution. Now she complains she has no jewelry and looks meager and poor. She buys a pretty dress but still is unhappy. Loisel solves this challenge by giving her 400 francs he had set aside for the hunting gun. She is afraid of showing herself as a poor little slob. The problem is she has nothing proper to wear. However, instead of getting excited, she grudgingly throws the invitation on the table. Loisel got the invitation through a lot of effort. The entire higher officials, and the minister himself, are to attend that ball. He gifts her a large envelope with an invitation to the ball. One night her husband gives her a surprise. Every time she returns home, she swears she will never go there again. That is why she constantly cries in anguish and despair.įrom time to time, she visits Jeanne Forestier, her wealthy friend. Mathilde refuses to accept her life as it is. Even the maid who runs their humble household evokes sadness for her unfulfilled desires. In reality, everything around brings her misery, starting with the poorness of her home, plain clothes, and food.

Mathilde dreams about spacious salons, shining silver, fine dinners, and other ordinary things of the privileged. In despair, she marries a petty official from the Ministry of Education. That is why she has no hopes of becoming a part of the upper class. She is from a clerk’s middle-class family who could not afford a dowry. The author tells the life story of an elegant and charming girl, Mathilde Loiselle. “The Necklace” is a tragic and philosophical work. Guy de Maupassant, an acceptable expert on human souls, wrote this novella at the end of the 19th century.

The necklace by guy de maupassant