One day, while taking a walk, Madame Loisel runs into Madame Forestier. After ten years, they are finally able to pay off all of their debts. To pay off the debt, both Monsieur and Madame Loisel must work tirelessly. After all this, Madame Loisel is able to return the newly bought necklace in the original’s case, apparently rousing no suspicion. Loisel has 18,000 francs from his father’s will and borrows the remaining sum, bit-by-bit and making “ruinous promises”(p.36) along the way. Loisel proclaims that they must replace it, and the couple finds a replacement for 36,000 francs.

Loisel return home at nearly 4 o’clock in the morning, and only when they arrive home does Mme. She agrees and goes to see her friend the next day, greedily choosing one of Madame Forestier’s finest necklaces.Īt the ball, Madame Loisel is a hit: elegant, joyful, and desired for waltzes. Her husband suggests that she ask to borrow some jewels from her rich friend, Madame Forestier. When asked why, she replies that she is embarrassed to attend the ball without any jewels. Her husband offers to give her the money for something suitable, but as the day of the ball approaches, she is still dismayed.

Loisel throws the invitation down in dismay, weeping and complaining that she has nothing to wear to such an event. One evening, her husband excitedly presents her with an invitation to attend an event at the Minister of Public Instruction’s home. Mathilde–now Madame Loisel–had always felt like she should have been upper class, and is unhappy in her married life: she hates their home, their food, and her lack of fine clothing and jewelry. Mathilde is born to a low-class family with no money for a dowry, she is married to Monsieur Loisel, a clerk from the Board of Education.

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