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Full Plot Summary. Mathilde Loisel is “pretty and charming” but feels she has been born into a family of unfavorable economic status. She was married off to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, who can afford to provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle.
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The protagonist of the story. Mathilde has been blessed with...
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The opening lines of “The Necklace” introduce Mathilde as an exceptionally beautiful woman with an ordinary social situation. From this starting point, the reader can anticipate the link between beauty and social ambition that will be explored throughout the rest of the story.
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Mathilde Loisel is attractive and pretty, but unhappy, very unhappy. She believes that life has played her false. She feels relegated to a lower station than she deserves. She wanted to be appreciated and loved by some rich gentleman from a good family, but instead, having no dowry, she had to settle for a junior clerk in the Ministry of Public Ins...
Madame Forestier is deeply touched. Taking both of her friends hands she says, Oh! My poor Mathilde! But mine was a fake. It was worth no more than five hundred francs!
Madame Forestier takes Mathildes hands in her own and tells her the truth. The necklace that she had loaned Mathilde was mere costume jewelry worth only five hundred francs.
Now that Madame Loisel knows true poverty, she shows herself to be made of something more valuable than her petty desires for surface flash have suggested. With heroism and pride, she shoulders her responsibility with her husband and for ten years does brutal manual labor until she has paid for the necklace. When the reader discovers that the neckl...
The Story of Jose Rizal. Chapter 1: Advent of a National Hero. The Birth of a Hero. · June 19, 1861 - birth date of Jose Rizal. · Born in Calamba, Laguna Province. · June 22, 1862 - he was baptized in the Catholic church of his town at the age of 3. · Father Rufino Collantes - baptized Rizal. · Father Pedro Casañas - Rizal's godfather.
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The Necklace Summary. 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. 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 ...
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In mid-19th-century Paris a pretty girl is born into a family of clerks. With no dowry and no prospects for marriage to a wealthy man, she marries Monsieur Loisel, a minor clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction.
