The Necklace

The Necklace
Imagine going to a party being the star of the party wearing a friend’s necklace and coming home and not finding it on your neck and you last saw it on the taxi that you didn’t get the number of the taxi cab. In the story “The Necklace” a girl that wants to fit in finds out that the most challenging thing is to be happy with her self and to not wish she was something diffirent then she really is.

In the story the necklace a young lady named Mathilde wish she was rich and had all the things she wanted in life. In reality Mathilde lives on a normal salary and her usband work for a bank as and accountent many. When Mathilde was all alone she would day dream about how she would live if she was wealthy. She would have a big house with grand partys she would also have the best china there was and beautiful gouns for going to parties. One day her husband came home with an invitation to go to a ball that the Mathilde has been dreaming about. Surprisingly she blew it off and said she didn’t wanna go because she had no dress that would suite her expectations of what she wanted to be perspected as. When her husband said she could get a nicer dress she was excited but then she relized she had nothing to go with her dress and she would look like a fool with out any jewlry. Just as they wernt going to go her husband thought that she could borrow a piece from her friend Madame Ramponneau who was very wealthy because she got married. As She went over to Madame Ramponneau house and got just one necklace but at the time she didn’t know that it was fake. She went to the party and she was a star she dance so gracefully and knew all the songs. When they went home she relived that she didn’t have it on her necklace. They sruched high and low and finally found a look alike and they bought it within three days. After they bought it they feel from middle class to lower class. When the Mathilde dreamed of the nice china and beautiful dresses now she just wished she could have her old life back. She become a servant and did other peoples laundry and cooked for other people when finally her husband and her payed off her whole debt she saw her friend Madame Ramponneau who gave her the necklace and first Madame Ramponneau didn’t even reconized her but then they got to talking and Madame Ramponneau relized that it was her friend and she caused the debt that the Mathilde was in becuause Mathilde had relized they thought it was real instead of fake.

The mode of “The Necklace” is a tradgey. The reason for the mode is that the main chacter was never happy with her self and never thought what she had was good enough for her self to be in public like that. In the beginging of the story there was a flaw in the charcter. Mathilde wished she had expenisve tapistry and priceless antiques in her house. Which make her vonurable to the story by wishing she was something else then what she really was. Then the main charcter rose to power I guess you could say by being the center of attition at the party and wearing the most beautiful dress. After the ball she had a tradgic fall by losesing the necklace. After she lost the necklace she fell from her spot on the “social pyramid” into the non-wealthy catagorie. After Mathilde and her husband payed back every person they owed money from she was taking a walk in the park and came across her wealthy friend and Mathilde talked to her which brought her back to being normal in the mode line of tradgey.

In the story the main charter is named Mathilde and she is very greaty and wants the best of everything and never apprectied anything that her husband worked so hard for. Also Mathilde wanted to be the center of attition and big events that were held, even though she was on the few couples that were invited as a treat for the accountant when he got it because very few accountants got the invite. When the husband came home with the new he was very excited but, Mathilde was being greety by not wanting to go because she had nothing to wear (that fit her expectations). Mathilde’s husband was very kind to her wife by giving her almost everything she wanted within reason. He worked very hard to try to meet Mathilde’s needs buy giving her money for a new dress and coming up with the way to borrow a piece of jewlery from her friend Madame Ramponneau. When his wife lost the necklace he was very responsible by getting the money and buying a replacement and having her give it to Madame Ramponneau and them having to go through the pain of paying it all back in ten years. The main chacters of the short story were very diffirent and I don’t even see how they got married in my opinion they were tottaly wrong for eachother Mathilde is very greety and doesn’t apprectie anything. Her husband on the other hand was very nice and down to earth person.

The main point of the story, it seems to me that you shoulnt let thing define you and we are all equal as a person but ony things define you and when people think that objects are the most important they become full of them selves if they become rich and high up in the social system. Many people get caught up in the money and never really apprict life on how lucky we are to have a good time evne if you dddont have a fancy dress or a necklace.