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the irony is Mathilde desperately wants to be of a higher class so she sacrifices one night of excitement and being noticed by the rich that she ends up spending her whole life even more unhappy and poor than she started out because she borrowed what she thought was a diamond necklace and ended up losing it.

The ultimate irony is that the necklace that Madame Loisele borrowed to prove that she was a member of high society proved to be as fake as her belief that she was a member of that high society.

also she thought that the ball was going to make her life better because of all the rich people attempting it, but it ends up making her life worse because she loses the necklace

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The irony in "The Necklace" is that the necklace was a fake. Instead of asking or telling her friend about how the necklace was lost, she ruins her life (and her husband's) to maintain her pride while making a ridiculous assumption. I don't know if I would even let my sister borrow a necklace of enormous and plentiful diamonds. Actually, I don't think I would even feel comfortable walking around with all that bling.

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Q: What is the irony in Guy de Maupassants short story The Necklace?
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