The
Necklace
Guy
de Maupassant
It was 7 PM in Paris, France. A shaggy old cabin
stands in the corner of a small road. Only the worst of the worst or the
poorest of the poor lived there. Even in the noon, there was a pickpocket, what
more of in the evening. There were
dangerous people who were
awake and even killers. That particular area never had any happy environment
and has quite the creepy atmosphere
Among the poor people was Madame Loisel who lived
with her husband, Monsieur Loisel. Madame Loisel was the only poor woman and
she actually longed for the golds and jewels. Chandeliers on top, gold
curtains, diamond encrusted windows, of all those luxuriousness. But she got a
lot of friends from her job as a cleaning service. Many people like her though,
because she is a kind woman, nice, and ambitious woman. As for her husband, he
was a tough man who cares for his wife and always did what’s best for her.
One night, Madame Loisel’s friend invited her to a
special occasion near the Eiffel Tower, for dinner and a small party with the
international designers and models. Sadly, she doesn’t have any jewels, nice
dress, and wonderful beauty products.
So
she bought those stuffs with her own money, but she still lacks one thing.
A
necklace.
Every single lady in the party had those fancy
necklace with garnets and rubies along with topaz and gold double necklace
again. Mathilde Loisel became depressed as she had no jewelries with her. She
has the fancy dress, but not the necklace. She went to the famous town jeweler
who is a good friend of her. Madame Foresteir, as people would call her, has
her shop on the side of town.
That was when she saw a tremendous, gorgeous,
magnificent diamond-encrested necklace. It was probably the size of a tennis
ball like she never seen before. Although seemingly impossible, she asked
Madame Foresteir to lend that necklace. Good thing, she wanted to lend it.
So that night, Madame Loisel borrowed that necklace.
She met a lot of people there; like Pierre balmain, Francisco Lachowski, Tyra
Bannks, many Victoria’s Secret Model, Maroon 5 and so on.
Unfortunately, that night, she went to the toilet
for touch ups. There, she met a friend of her who was a very good friend of
her. She was very talkative and shared many stories until she forgot that she
took off her necklace and put that on the table near the sink. As they were so into that stories, they went
out the toilet for appropriate talk and have some drink.
When time struck by 10 pm, she went home; when she
was back at home, she was very happy but also have a bad feeling. By the time
she wanted to undress herself, she just realized that the necklace was not with
her. She was very stressed and depressed; she did not know what to do next. She
even had bad dreams thinking of how she’s going to replace it. That was a day
of torment for her and Monsieur Loisel.
Her husband saw her. She told him those stories. Now
both of them don’t know what to do. They tried to look for that necklace
everywhere, until, they called 911 for helping them to find that necklace, post
the picture in facebook and twitter.
But
still, it was not found.
So, she went to Madame Foresteir and
apologized. Mathilde Loisel told her everything from the start, from the party
and so on until she lost it. Forestier tried to stop her but she can’t.
Mathilde Loisel was too depressed, stressed and focused on her apology. She went
out and went away from her. That was when Forestier ran and stop her and said:
“Don’t worry Mathilde, the necklace is with me. I took it during the party
thinking you didn’t need it anymore. “ Mathilde just stared at her speechless
and dumbfounded.
