The Necklace
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- Exposition
- Conflict
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- Rising Action
- Mathilde Loisel is a woman in the 1800s who wishes and believes she should be in a higher class full of luxuries and the such. Her husband brings tickets for a party of which that has people of the high class. She's ungrateful about this as she believes she can't go to the party with the clothes she currently owns.
- Climax
- Mathilde doesn't have the money but wants to look elegant enough for the ball so her husband gives her four hundred francs to buy a dress to wear. She then asks a wealthy friend, Madame Forestier for jewelry to wear to the party. Forestier allows Mathilde to choose jewelry and Mathilde was happy to pick out a necklace to borrow.
- Falling Action
- At the party, Mathilde is in absolute euphoria dancing the night away feeling as if she truly belongs there. Unfortunately, the necklace went missing and they couldn't find it. The couple decide to buy a replacement.
- Resolution
- They needed to pay up thirty-six thousand francs for the replacement necklace. They didn't have the money for this situation and had to apply for loans in order to purchase the substitute. They would have to work hard for ten years in order to be free of this debt. They gave Madame Forestier the substitute necklace and she didn't realize it was a replacement.
- Ten years have passed and the couple is now poor. She went from believing she was poor to actually being poor. Out in the street, she sees the same friend who let her borrow the necklace, Forestier.
- Mathilde explains that she and her husband had to pay off a ludicrous debt for losing Forestier's necklace and replacing it. Madame Forestier clarifies that the necklace didn't use actual jewels and was a mere imitation.
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