The Necklace Storyboard by Darby Myers
Storyboard Text
- -Exposition Set in Paris, France in 1880. A young middle-class woman dreams of a lifestyle far beyond her reach. One day, her husband comes home with tickets to attend a very affluent party, and she is excited to attend, but upset that she will look dowdy.
- We were invited to a party!
- -Conflict Mathilde Loisel is not wealthy, yet she dreams to be. Her husband gives her money to buy a dress, but she is not satisfied until she asks a wealthy friend for a necklace to borrow.
- You can have my 400 francs to buy a dress.
- You can borrow my necklace.
- -Rising Action At the ball, Mme. Loisel is a hit, everyone loves her. Upon leaving she reaches for the necklace and finds it missing. After days of searching, she and her husband decide to replace it with a one that looks identical. The replacement cost more money than they make, and it takes them ten years to pay it off.
- -Climax After ten years of hard work and struggles, the couple pays off all their debts.
- -Falling Action One day Mathilde is walking to the market and sees the friend that she borrowed the necklace from. She decides to tell her what happened.
- I spent 10 years working to replace the necklace you lent me.
- -Resolution The friend, Mme. Forestier, tells Mathilde that the necklace was “false”, a fake. The reader is left contemplating the irony of the situation.
- The necklace was fake!
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