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The Necklace
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"The Necklace" is an 1884 short story by Guy de Maupassant.A young, lower middle class couple borrows some nice clothes and jewelry from an upper class friend to wear to a party. During the course of the party, the lady, named Mathilde, loses the stunning necklace that she borrowed from her friend. Hiding the truth, the couple sell their house and take out an exceedingly harsh loan to buy a diamond necklace to replace it, and work for the next ten years to pay back the debt... only to be told at the end of the story by the lady's friend that the original necklace was not made out of real diamonds and nowhere near as expensive as they believed. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: After paying off the necklace, Mathilde and her husband are in immense debt and have to cut expenses to the bone in order to survive. Mathilde starts losing her looks as a result, and by the time she meets her friend, she's unrecognizable. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Not admitting to the lost necklace, or that the necklace was fake in the first place, resulted in Mathilde and her husband working themselves ragged to replace a piece of costume jewelry with a real one. Even worse, Mathilde's husband brought it up, only for his words to fall on deaf ears. At the same time, had the friend told Mathilde that the necklace was a substantially cheaper knockoff, things wouldn't have been become so dire. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Mathilde's desire for finer things than what she and her husband can afford are partly what gets them into the mess in the first place. By the end of the story, she's had to go through a lot to pay for that one moment of indulgence. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: The last line delivered by Mathilde's friend. In certain republished versions, the story literally ends after said line. | |
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Broken Treasure | |
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Broken Treasure: Deconstructed. It turns out that the "treasure" isn't what it seems to be, and was worth substantially less than its replacement. | |
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Karmic Twist Ending | |
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Karmic Twist Ending: Mathilde borrows a diamond necklace from her wealthier friend to wear at a state gala. She ends up losing it, and instead of telling her friend the truth, she and her husband have a replacement made and return that one, borrowing so much money that they end up struggling in debt for ten years. Just after they finally repay all the loans, she sees her friend for the first time in a decade and tells the woman the story of the necklace. Her horrified friend then informs her that the necklace had been fake costume jewellery, and was only worth one-seventieth of what they paid for the replacement. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Mathilde doesn't stop to wonder why a piece of jewelry supposedly worth thousands upon thousands of francs would break and fall off her neck. | |
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Mock Millionaire | |
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Mock Millionaire: Mathilde's lady friend. Of her assorted collection of jewellery, the most valuable-looking of the lot is that fake necklace, and her other jewels might be duplicates as well. However, it's also likely that the friend simply did not want to lend Mathilde her most valuable jewellery, and only presented her with the least valuable items. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: While it's understandable that Mathilde feels resentful after ten years of misery, she claims that all the suffering was because of her friend, when she reveals the truth to her. If Mathilde had told the truth a decade before, she wouldn't be in this mess. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: There's some hint that the necklace isn't as valuable as Mathilde — obsessed with appearances as she is — thinks it to be, judging by how casually her friend lets her borrow it, and how the clasp easily broke. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: Mathilde and her husband work themselves for ten years to repay a debt of a necklace that was much cheaper than the replacement. | |
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Pride | |
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Pride: The cause of the heroine's troubles is that she didn't want to admit to losing the necklace—had she unbent enough to tell the truth, she would have been spared a lot of suffering. | |
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Never Lend to a Friend | |
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Never Lend to a Friend: Mathilde borrows a diamond necklace from her friend, loses it, and pays her and her husband's life savings for that necklace. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Of the young couple, only Mathilde's name is given. Her husband's and friend's are not. | |
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Storm in a Teacup | |
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Storm in a Teacup: Most decidedly not Played for Laughs. A woman borrows her friend's diamond necklace for a fancy dress party, only to lose it. Rather than tell her friend what happened, she buys a replica of the necklace, using loaned money that takes her and her husband a decade to pay back. Near the end of the story, she runs into her friend (whom she hasn't seen since the party) and reveals the truth. The friend, tears welling up in her eyes, reveals that her necklace was merely "paste" (costume jewelry), and didn't cost a fraction of the replacement's price tag. | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: When Mathilde meets her friend again at the end of the story, the friend doesn't recognise her at first because of all she's gone through to pay off the second necklace. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: It's arguable that Pride is the worst enemy of Mathilde and her husband. | |
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All That Glitters / int_befdc4da | |
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Broken Treasure / int_befdc4da | |
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Interclass Friendship / int_befdc4da | |
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Karmic Twist Ending / int_befdc4da | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment / int_befdc4da | |
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Mock Millionaire / int_befdc4da | |
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Storm in a Teacup / int_befdc4da | |
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Work Off the Debt / int_befdc4da |
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