The lady wanted to go out but she didn't have and fancy jewelry so she asked her friend to barrow a necklace, she went out and came home it was gone she looked everywhere. she lost her friends necklace and she thought is was real so she worked hard to buy a real diamond necklace to give to her friend then finds out the necklace she barrowed was fake and that it didn't matter that the necklace was gone. But the couple work so hard to buy the necklace.
This is a summary
Mathilde Loisel is a charming and pretty woman who has always believed herself destined for greater things than her life has brought her. The feeling that she deserves the luxuries of life and is yet unable to afford those “delicacies” causes her to suffer continuous feelings of jealousy and longing. After marrying a clerk who works at the Ministry of Public Instruction, Mathilde settles into a life of mediocrity, longing for women to envy her and men to pursue her. Finding these desires unfulfilled, Mathilde even begins avoiding her wealthy friend Madame Forestier, a former schoolmate, because returning from her friend’s house of opulence causes Mathilde to suffer even more deeply when she returns to her own modest abode.
One evening, Mathilde’s husband arrives home with what he believes will be joyous news for his wife. The couple has been invited to a grand ball and celebration at the palace of the Ministry, and the invitation has been difficult for Monsieur Loisel to procure. Yet instead of the delight he expects the invitation to elicit, his wife responds with scorn, telling him that she cannot possibly attend without a proper dress. Trying to comfort her, Monsieur Loisel asks how much a simple dress might cost, and Mathilde estimates that such a dress would cost around four hundred francs. Monsieur Loisel has saved just that amount of money to treat himself to a gun and a getaway with friends the next summer, but he gives his wife his savings so that she can buy the dress she desires.
As the date of the ball approaches, Monsieur Loisel senses his wife’s anxieties growing. He asks why she’s been behaving so oddly, and she tells him that she cannot go to the ball without having a single jewel to wear with the dress. He tries to convince her that “natural flowers [are] very stylish at this time of the year,” but Mathilde cannot be convinced. Instead, she worries that she will be humiliated, looking “poor among other women who are rich.” Her husband gives Mathilde an idea that overjoys her: she should simply ask to borrow some jewelry for the event from Madame Forestier.
Madame Forestier shows Mathilde many pieces in her collection, from a pearl necklace to pieces with precious stones and “admirable workmanship,” but nothing seems stunning enough to capture Mathilde’s interest. She asks her friend if she has any more jewelry, and Madame Forestier produces “a superb necklace of diamonds.” Mathilde places it around her neck with trembling hands, “lost in ecstasy at the sight of herself.” She kisses her friend and flees with her treasure.
When the ball arrives, Mathilde Loisel is as radiant as she’s ever dreamed. She is “elegant, gracious, smiling, and crazy with joy.” Men desire to know her and beg to be introduced to her. The attachés of the Cabinet desire to waltz with her, and the minister himself makes comments about her. Mathilde dances until four in the morning, made “drunk” by the pleasure of captivating the attention of a room, just as she’s always desired. Finally, it is time to return home, and Mathilde finds her husband asleep in an anteroom. When Monsieur Loisel wraps his wife in the “modest wraps of common life” before they enter the cold, Mathilde again feels the pains of her relative poverty in comparison to the women who wrap up in “costly...
