The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant Reflection

In the story “The Necklace” I learned some valuable lesson on lieing.It’s just like saying trouble is so easy to get in but too hard to get out. As the best example in the story are Mr. and Mrs Loisel.

   As we know in the beginning of the story they were known as Middle class people but because of lying and dishonest action, they lost everything.From poor to a more poorer condition. But we should agree Mrs.Loisel should be blame for everything because throughout the beginning of the whole story you can say she wore the pants.Even though Mr.Loisel was the man, the story did not play out this way because she was never happy and never had nothing good to say about her husband even though I thought he was a good man that any women would have wish to have especially in these days.He worked all the time and tried everything in his ability to make her happy,but nothing help because of Mrs Loisel greediness. 

   The point that I am trying to make is ,when her husband gave her the wrong advice about lieing to her friend about the necklace being broken she should have spoken up just like she spoke up when he came home with the invitation to the Ball. But the author wanted to make it more complicated when Mr Loisel asked Mrs Loisel to lie about  the necklace. Mr Loisel should say no baby i think it’s a bad idea to lie about the necklace being broken and lets just tell her true. If they would have just told the truth they would’ve never been in financial battle they are in now.  They need to do all kinds of work and always being in hard situation for 10 years just to pay debt for a fake necklace.

Reflection by 'Afif Aziz and Fikri Husaili
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 This story about a woman who dont just get enough with what she had. She wished something that is not in her ability in the same time he burderned her husband because of her greediness needs.

At the beginning of the story, we meet Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class girl who desperately wishes she were wealthy. She's got looks and charm, but had the bad luck to be born into a family of clerks, who marry her to another clerk (Madam Loisel) in the Department of Education. Mathilde is so convinced she's meant to be rich that she detests her real life and spends all day dreaming and despairing about the fabulous life she's not having. She envisions footmen, feasts, fancy furniture, and strings of rich young men to seduce.

One day M. Loisel comes home with an invitation to a fancy ball thrown by his boss, the Minister of Education. M. Loisel has gone to a lot of trouble to get the invitation, but Mathilde's first reaction is to throw a fit. She doesn't have anything nice to wear, and can't possibly go! How dare her husband be so insensitive? M. Loisel doesn't know what to do, and offers to buy his wife a dress, so long as it's not too expensive. Mathilde asks for 400 francs, and he agrees. It's not too long before Mathilde throws another fit, though, this time because she has no jewels. So M. Loisel suggests she go see her friend Mme. Forestier, a rich woman who can probably lend her something. Mathilde goes to see Mme. Forestier, and she is in luck. Mathilde is able to borrow a gorgeous diamond necklace. With the necklace, she's sure to be a stunner.

The night of the ball arrives, and Mathilde has the time of her life. Everyone loves her  and she is absolutely thrilled. She and her husband don't leave until 4am. Mathilde suddenly dashes outside to avoid being seen in her shabby coat. She and her husband catch a cab and head home. But once back at home, Mathilde makes a horrifying discovery: the diamond necklace is gone.

M. Loisel spends all of the next day, and even the next week, searching the city for the necklace, but finds nothing. It's gone. So he and Mathilde decide they have no choice but to buy Mme. Forestier a new necklace. They visit one jewelry store after another until at last they find a necklace that looks just the same as the one they lost. Unfortunately, it's 36 thousand francs, which is exactly twice the amount of all the money M. Loisel has to his name. So M. Loisel goes massively into debt and buys the necklace, and Mathilde returns it to Mme. Forestier, who doesn't notice the substitution. Buying the necklace catapults the Loisels into poverty for the next ten years. That's right, ten years. They lose their house, their maid, their comfortable lifestyle, and on top of it all Mathilde loses her good looks.

After ten years, all the debts are finally paid, and Mathilde is out for a jaunt on the Champs Elysées. There she comes across Mme. Forestier, rich and beautiful as ever. Now that all the debts are paid off, Mathilde decides she wants to finally tell Mme. Forestier the sad story of the necklace and her ten years of poverty, and she does. At that point, Mme. Forestier, aghast, reveals to Mathilde that the necklace she lost was just a fake. It was worth only five hundred francs.

Summary by 'Afif Aziz and Fikri Husaili
#ELC150 Sir Hanith