The Diamond Necklace

The Necklace In the story “The Necklace” the author’s theme is to show us that greed and envy can lead to destruction. In this story Mathilde is a very envious woman whom always dreamed (20) of a life that she could not have. She was very charming and beautiful woman who thought that she must have been born into the wrong life, since she had no way of getting known and married by a rich man. Instead she married a simple middle class man and lived a middle class life. All the while she dreamed of living the life of the rich. With beautiful gowns and glittering jewelry. Oh how happy she thought she would be. Then one day it happened that she and her husband where invited to a dinner ball. Her husband, Mr. Loisel thought this would make his wife so very happy since this is what she spent all of her time day dreaming of. Here it was, the thing that consumed her finally at , but she was not happy. In fact, Mathilde was even more distraught because it brought to her attention that she had nothing proper to wear. Mr. Loisel sympathized with his wife and knowing he had money set aside for a new gun, he gave her 400 francs. This was enough money for a pretty dress, not too fancy, but pretty because he knew this would be a rare occasion. As the day drew near Mathilde’s envy overtook her once more and she became distraught.Because she did not have any jewelry to fluaunt.Mr. Loisel then tells her that she could just wear natural flowers .But Mathilde refuses saying that she would appear poor among the other rich women.Her husband than tells her to see if her friend Madame Forestier could lend her some jewlery she then goes and pick out a very elegent diamond necklace she goes to the ball and everyone is looking at her and enjoying her company and for that time she was living her dream she then returns home and begins to change when she notices that she does not have the necklace anymore she then tells begins to act very frantic wondering how she can return a necklace she does not have she then rells her friend that she wil give it back in due time and then begins to look for a similer necklace to buy as a subsitue her and her husband borrow 36,000 francs to buy one that she found she return it to her friend fearing that she would notice . She takes it back and thanks her then for many years she really works like a poor women to pay of the all the money she borrowed then meny years later she see her friend from whome she borrowd the diamond necklace ,at a park and tells her the truth about the necklace , then her friend tell her that she should have told her the truth from the beginiing because the original necklace she had lost was a fake and not worth any more then 1000 francs. I think that she could have just told her the truth from the begining and averted all the hardship she had goon thru and she could have just been happy with her life instead of being so wanting of a life she could not have because in reality her life was not that bad but when she lost the diamond necklace she really had to live like a lower class women it's irony that she got what she wanted for one night and got what she dreded for years