What is the summary of the necklace by guy de maupassant?

Answer 1

Basically it's about this woman's greed and how she completely takes advantage of her husband, spending money on gowns and the sort. Then she asks her friend for some jewelry, she decides on this necklace and was so happy, then she ended up losing it, and instead of telling her friend she had lost it they spent all they money buying a replacement. Years later she is working as a maid, having lost her middle class status and she found her old friend. There she told her that the necklace as a fake, whereas the one she had replaced it with was a real one. Then she goes off and blames her friend for all her troubles and the current position she was in, when if she had just admitted she had lost the thing, she would have been fine.

Answer 2

"The Necklace" tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. When Mathilde was little, she always imagined herself in a high social position with wonderful jewels. However, when she grows up, she has nothing and marries a lowly clerk who is obsessed with making her happy.

Through lots of begging at work, he is able to get two invitations to the Ministry of Education's party. Mathilde is upset, for she has nothing to wear. Using money that he was saving to buy a rifle, he lets Mathilde buy a fancy dress. Mathilde also wants jewels to wear with it. Since they have no money left, her husband suggests that she borrow something from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. Mathilde picks out the fanciest jewel necklace that she can find. After attending the Ministry of Education's party, Mathilde finds out that she has lost the necklace.

Mathilde and her husband then have to work for ten years to come up with the 36,000 francs to buy a replacement necklace. After losing everything, having to work, and forcing her husband to work two jobs, Mathilde sees Madame Forestier walking down the street and tells her that the necklace she returned to her was actually a replacement. Madame Forestier is surprised and tells Mathilde that the original necklace was actually a copy, worth only 500 francs.

Answer 3

A pretty woman of low social status feels unsatisfied with her husband and her life. She gets the opportunity to attend a ball of sorts, and feels that she must look "high class" so she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend. She goes to the ball, and relishes in feeling special. When she gets home, however, she finds that the necklace is missing. She and her husband search desperately for it, but cannot find it. They go to a shop, and see that the same necklace is being sold for a huge amount of money. They purchase it, vowing to pay off the debt. It takes them years, but after working ceaselessly, the pay off all the debt. By that time, the woman has completely lost her beauty. She bumps into the old friend on the street, and confesses to her that she had lost her original necklace, and had just paid off the debt on the one that she had been given to replace it. The friend is in shock, and tells her that the necklace that she had given her was a fake, and cost almost nothing.

Answer 4

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is a story about a woman named Mathilde Loisel who borrows a necklace to wear to a fancy ball, only to lose it. To replace it, she and her husband go into debt for years. When Mathilde finally encounters the woman whom she borrowed the necklace from, she discovers that the original necklace she borrowed was a fake, making all their sacrifices in vain. The story explores themes of wealth, appearance, and the consequences of pride and vanity.