The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
POSTED ON Saturday, January 4, 2014 AT 6:12 PM \\
THE NECKLACE
The lessons of this story is we have to accept the fate of our lives. Let we live in poorness as long as we live happily.
This story tells about a
married couple who live in a modest family. Mathilde was Loisel wife. She was one of those pretty and charming girl born. But she just born in the family of artisans.
Next she married a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her life is
turned into a miserable life. She suffered from the poorness of her house. She always feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury. But the dream is only a dream. She also had a rich friend, an old school friend.
One evening, her husband came to bring a invitation to a party. But Madame Loisel do not want to attend because she was ashamed not to
have clothes and beautiful jewels for the occasion. Loisel sympathize with her
and give four hundred francs to buy the preparations to the party. She use the money to buy jewels, but Loisel scolded. He says Madame Loisel better lend the jewels from her friend Madame Forestier. The next day, she went to Madame Forestier to lend jewels. He tried a variety of jewels belonging to Madame Forestier. Finally
he decided to borrow a superb diamond necklace.
Besides, do not act with gladness that we have because all that will not last forever.
The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest women present, elegent, graceful, smilling, and quite above herself with happiness. All the men stared at her and the Minister also noticed her. At the party, she danced madly, ecstaticaaly, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triump of her beauty, and in the pride of her success.
They left the party about four o'clock in the morning. No cab at there, at last they found on the quay one those old nightprowling carriages which are only to be seen in Paris after dark, as though they were ashamed of their shabbiness in the daylight.
Moreover, when we borrow things from other people we need to take care of it. Especially the things were prized and valuable items. If the item is lost we have to replace it back with the same item.
When they arrived at home, she took off the garments in which she had wrapped her shoulders, so as to see herself in all her glory before the mirror. But suddendly she uttered a cry. The necklace was no longer round her neck !
She told her husband about that and her husband started with astonishment. After that they searched in the folds of her dress, in the folds of the coat, in the pockets, everywhere. But they could not find it. Her husband go out to find the necklace and he had found nothing. He went to the police station, to the newspapers, to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere that a ray of hope impelled him.
They have to pay back the diamond necklace that belonging to Madame Forestier in whatever ways. They went from jeweller to jeweller, searching for other necklace like the first. In the shop at the Palais-Royal they found a staring of diamonds which seemed to them exactly like the one they looking for. It was worth forty thousand francs. They were allowed to have it for thirty-six thousand.
They do an aggrement to pay that diamond. Every month notes had to be paid off, others renewed, time gained. Her husband worked in the evenings as putting straight a merchant's accounts, and often at night he did copying at twopence-halfpenney a page. And this life lasted ten years.
At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
Madame Loisel looked old now. She become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households.
The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
POSTED ON Saturday, January 4, 2014 AT 6:12 PM \\
THE NECKLACE
The lessons of this story is we have to accept the fate of our lives. Let we live in poorness as long as we live happily.
This story tells about a
married couple who live in a modest family. Mathilde was Loisel wife. She was one of those pretty and charming girl born. But she just born in the family of artisans.
Next she married a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her life is
turned into a miserable life. She suffered from the poorness of her house. She always feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury. But the dream is only a dream. She also had a rich friend, an old school friend.
One evening, her husband came to bring a invitation to a party. But Madame Loisel do not want to attend because she was ashamed not to
have clothes and beautiful jewels for the occasion. Loisel sympathize with her
and give four hundred francs to buy the preparations to the party. She use the money to buy jewels, but Loisel scolded. He says Madame Loisel better lend the jewels from her friend Madame Forestier. The next day, she went to Madame Forestier to lend jewels. He tried a variety of jewels belonging to Madame Forestier. Finally
he decided to borrow a superb diamond necklace.
Besides, do not act with gladness that we have because all that will not last forever.
The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest women present, elegent, graceful, smilling, and quite above herself with happiness. All the men stared at her and the Minister also noticed her. At the party, she danced madly, ecstaticaaly, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triump of her beauty, and in the pride of her success.
They left the party about four o'clock in the morning. No cab at there, at last they found on the quay one those old nightprowling carriages which are only to be seen in Paris after dark, as though they were ashamed of their shabbiness in the daylight.
Moreover, when we borrow things from other people we need to take care of it. Especially the things were prized and valuable items. If the item is lost we have to replace it back with the same item.
When they arrived at home, she took off the garments in which she had wrapped her shoulders, so as to see herself in all her glory before the mirror. But suddendly she uttered a cry. The necklace was no longer round her neck !
She told her husband about that and her husband started with astonishment. After that they searched in the folds of her dress, in the folds of the coat, in the pockets, everywhere. But they could not find it. Her husband go out to find the necklace and he had found nothing. He went to the police station, to the newspapers, to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere that a ray of hope impelled him.
They have to pay back the diamond necklace that belonging to Madame Forestier in whatever ways. They went from jeweller to jeweller, searching for other necklace like the first. In the shop at the Palais-Royal they found a staring of diamonds which seemed to them exactly like the one they looking for. It was worth forty thousand francs. They were allowed to have it for thirty-six thousand.
They do an aggrement to pay that diamond. Every month notes had to be paid off, others renewed, time gained. Her husband worked in the evenings as putting straight a merchant's accounts, and often at night he did copying at twopence-halfpenney a page. And this life lasted ten years.
At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
Madame Loisel looked old now. She become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households.
Zahratie Mu'az
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