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March 15, 2007

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

It is an astonishing story. While reading, my thoughts floated.At first, I would laugh at Mme. Loisel's idea of the unfairness about life. She is wondering being rich and charming, which I pay some sympathy that she is really not luckily born. She, however, should not wonder so much, and I think it is her fault to ask her husband that much money for a dress in order to attend a party for merely once. It is a face issue.

Reading on, I found that the above is just a small part of the story, and the unfortunate fate fell to them afterwards. No one should be blamed of losing the necklace, but it does have changed the Loisels' life. They have paid so much to replace the missing necklace, which we can figure out from what happened at the occasional reunion of Mme. Loisel and Mme. Forestier. Mme. Forestier could hardly recognize Mme. Loisel, for Mme. Loisel's appearance and spirit have been greatly changed after 10 years' heavy work. It is not easy for a poor family to pay the price. If she did not lose that necklace, she would not have led such a miserable and exhausting life even if they are still poor.

I do not know what to say when I read of the last sentence. It is surprising and unbelievable! What a huge joke! How could it be a paste necklace? How could Mme. Loisel keep working so hard just because of a paste necklace? She should not have paid that much price. It is not worth her tremendous cost! It is a ridiculous and sarcastic story, maybe the author just want to tell us that the lower-classed family, in those days, led an unimaginable difficult life all through their lives.

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