The Fake Necklace She Had Been Dreaming For

Madame Mathilde Loisel had the imagination of having a high position in society with wonderful jewels. However, being married to a clerk gave her nothing. Her husband tried everything to please her, and one day he got two invitations for a party. Mathilde refused, as she got nothing to wear. Using money that he had saved to buy a rifle, he let Mathilde to buy a dress. Still, she was not happy for not having the proper jewels. She then borrowed the fanciest jewel necklace from her best friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. Unfortunately, after being flattered at the ball, she realized she had lost the necklace.

Failed in searching it, they took out loan from friends and loan sharks to replace the necklace with the exact look. It took them ten years of hard labour to repay them back. Toward the end, Mathilde was taking a walk, remembering her past which changed her life drastically. There, she met Madame Forestier, her best friend, who was shocked by Mathilde's look. Mathilde explained what had happened, but she was shocked when Madame Forestier said the lost necklace was only a fake.

By believing she was born in the wrong social class, after one night of denying the truth, Mathilde lost them altogether. It can be understood by people why she was eagerly attending the party, as she was tired living her life. The readers may doubt her love and loyalty towards her husband, as she was discontented with everything and blamed her husband. Her husband's love was showed obviously, as he tried everything to please his wife despite his condition with nothing to offer.  When her husband gave her money to buy a dress, she was not grateful for that but asking for more. However, when her best friend Forestier lent her the necklace, she showed a great passion towards her. It proved that Mathilde was showing her affection only towards her rich friend, and her love for her poor husband is almost none, or maybe did not exist from the beginning.


At the ball, she was ashamed to be with her husband. Mr. Loisel waited for her at an old salon, while Mathilde was happily dancing with rich and powerful men, who she had been dreaming for. She was trying to get away from her husband despite his love. When she lost the necklace, he was not angry, instead, he was searching for it desperately, to please her again.


In the end, when Mathilde knew that the necklace was fake, she must have been realize that her day of becoming part of rich people was also fake. It was mainly her imagination to be adored and envied, as the fake necklace symbolized her imagination. If only Mathilde had accepted her lot in life, as her husband had, and if she had loved him just as much as he loved her, she could have been content, but her unrelenting desire for all that was not hers consequently left both her and her husband with even less than they started with.