Q. Justify the title necklace in your own words.

The Necklace 

by Guy de Maupassant

Q. Justify the title necklace in your own words.

Ans. Mathilde Loisel lives in a flat with her husband, who works as a clerk for the Minister of Education. Their lives are not luxurious, but they are not poor, merely simple. Mathilde, however, longs to be rich. She envies her friend Jeanne who has a large house and lots of jewelry.

One day her husband brings home an invitation to a ball. He thinks his wife will be excited to attend such a fancy party, but instead she is upset. She complains that she has nothing suitable to wear to such an extravagant occasion. Her kind husband agrees to give her the four hundred francs that he had been saving to buy a new rifle to get herself a gown.

The week of the party, Mathilde seems anxious again. When her husband asks her why, she frets that she has no jewelry to wear with her dress. He suggests that perhaps she could borrow something from her friend Jeanne Forestier. Mathilde goes to Jeanne's house and picks out a sparkling diamond necklace to borrow.

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They have a fabulous party and dances all night. At the house Mathilde realizes that the necklace is missing. Her husband goes out to search the streets but failed. To stall for time, Mathilde writes to her friend that she broke necklace. They find same necklace which costs thirty-six thousand francs. Her husband borrow eighteen thousand francs from his father and others money from his friends.

Finally, they purchase the necklace and 

gives it to Jeanne who doesn't even look at it.

The next ten years of Mathilde's life changes dramatically they cook and clean for herself. She also works multiple jobs to pay back all the money they borrowed. After the ten years, the money is all paid back. 

One day she meets with Jeanne Forestier on the street. Jeanne Forestier is stunned by Mathilde's rough apreance. She told all the truth before his friend Jeanne. Shocked, Jeanne confesses that the necklace was a fake, made up of paste, worth no more than five hundred francs.

This story give the lesson be honest with friend. If Mathilde tells the truth from the start, she would not have wasted ten years for a replacement.