The necklace from Madame Forestier gave Mathilde the illusion of richness and value because Madame Forestier was her rich friend, a person she admired and who wanted be like her, being unthinkable that such a respectable lady could had a fake necklace in her jewelry collection. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs! '(Maupassant, The Necklace). 'Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. She sacrificed ten years of her life for paying the necklace that she thought was real. However, Mathilde paid a very big price for that.Īt the end of the story, we found out that the necklace that Mathilde borrowed from her friend Madame Forestier, and lost it, was fake.

She was the most beautiful and charming woman from the party, being help by his husband with a new expensive dress and by her friend who borrowed a diamond necklace. She had her change to bright for a couple of hours at a social ball, where her dream came true. The main character of the story, Mathilde, never felt that the normal life she had fits her, and she always dreamed on being wealthy and making part of the social class. The story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant teaches us a very good life lesson regarding this issue and in another order of ideas, we can call it the deceptiveness of appearances. Nowadays, people tend to care too much what other people may think about them, sometimes making sacrifices beyond their possibilities, for the sake of appearances.

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