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The main message of “The Necklace” is how selfish acts and materialism are destructive and
can lead to a hard and dissatisfying life. Two central themes in “The Necklace” are greed and
vanity and appearance versus reality.
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What is the summary of the story of Madame Loisel?
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In the short story ''The Necklace'' by Guy de Maupassant, Madame and Monsieur Loisel are a
middle-class couple living a good life. However, Madame Loisel wishes she lived among the
wealthy, and this need for more causes their lives to change for the worse.
“The Necklace”
is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, first published in 1884. It tells the story of
Mathilde Loisel, a young woman who borrows a necklace from a wealthy friend to wear to a high-
society event, only to lose it and spend the next ten years of her life in poverty trying to replace it.
The main message of “The Necklace” is how selfish acts and materialism are destructive and can lead
to a hard and dissatisfying life. Two central themes in “The Necklace” are greed and vanity and
appearance versus reality.
The moral lesson to be learned from "The Necklace“ is that a person will pay dearly for coveting false
values and a person's preoccupation with appearance and materialism is fruitless and vain. Important
to live within one's means. The story teaches us not to borrow things or money unnecessarily.
In the short story ''The Necklace'' by Guy de Maupassant, Madame and Monsieur Loisel are a middle-
class couple living a good life. However, Madame Loisel wishes she lived among the wealthy, and this
need for more causes their lives to change for the worse.
“The Necklace,” an example of Realist fiction, tells the story of an average woman who pays a
significant price to experience a glamorous evening. As in all Realist fiction, there is no fairy-
tale ending. born, as if by an error of Fate, into a petty official's family.