Mathilde Loisel's The Necklace

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In “The Necklace,” Mathilde Loisel is an ordinary middle class women who borrows an expensive, or so she thinks, diamond necklace from a friend and ends up losing it after attending a reception at the Ministry. The next day she goes out and buys a replica diamond necklace hoping that her friend will never know the difference. After that night she has to pay back the loans on the necklace for ten years. When she finally pays back the loans she learns that the original necklace she borrowed was fake and just costume jewelry worth nothing. The story cuts there and makes the reader wonder what happens to Mathilde Loisel. The three most important conflicts in this story are Mathilde losing the fake diamonds in the first place, buying a real …show more content…
The next day they ended up buying a brand new one with the “eighteen thousand francs left to him by his father” while they intended to loan the rest. Instead of trying to reckon and tell the truth to her “friend”, she tried to cover up her tracks by replacing it. If Mahdile really considered Madame Forestier a close trusting friend, she would have told the truth and found herself not worried by the small price of five hundred francs instead of forty thousand. For example, If you had borrowed your friend's favorite sweatshirt and end up leaving it at the movies, you would tell her the truth instead of retracing your every step in trying to find it or spending more money to buy a replica. It would save a lot of time and stress for you to just tell the truth and by doing that might even make you closer as friends. But again Mathilde didn't want to look shabby of poor and have Madame Forestier think twice next time she went behind her back and bought a real one. “ What would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have taken her for a thief?” All these thoughts were running through Mathildes head while giving back the necklace. She went behind her back because she was really just afraid of being judged or mistaken as a
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