The necklace story indicates how one’s attraction to something can change his or her life completely. Madam Mathilde Loise’s desire for jewelry to march to her gown to look pretty in the party led her family to more misery than the respect and honor that she was looking forward to, as she wanted to outstand, other clerks wives invited to the party. The necklace story relates very well to our real life. We are attracted to several things that will make us out stand from others, Mathilde Loise just like most of us felt that she must look pretty at the party to extend of spending all her husband’s savings in purchasing a gown to wear on the event day. Despite all the struggles, her husband went through to make her happy she did not get satisfied, as she still needed something else to march to the gown. It is true that when we want to compete with other friends, we go to a far point of spending all our savings to ensure that we look different, we can be easily noticed and our presence is recognized.
The truth kills and hurts most especially when you know how much you have struggled to earn something. Mathilde Loise and her husband have struggled for ten years trying all their best to ensure that they pay all the depth that they have incurred after the necklace got lost and it was not found even after reporting to the police station, advertising, and promising to give a reward to anyone who will find and returns the necklace. It is painful to realize that something worth less than five hundred francs can make one go through such misery for ten good years. It could be better if she has not known the truth. Mathilde Loise had sacrificed all her life for ten years to assist her husband in repaying the loans plus interests that had accumulated. As they did not have money to purchase the necklace, they had to use all their savings that are, the money that was left for Mathilde Loise by her father and her husband savings, but the money was not enough so they had to borrow extra money from friends to raise the much-needed money for a new necklace.
Towards the end of the story, Mathilde Loise decides to tell the truth to Madame Forestier concerning the necklace and the misery that she had undergone. Madame Forestier was mush surprised if not astonished by the revelation given by her friend, she informed Mathilde Loise that she did not need to worry herself that much as the necklace was a paste, in other words, it was not original, but coated with the diamond coat. The necklace would have not cost more than five hundred francs. The findings from Madame Forestier must have surprised Mathilde Loise. She must have asked herself several questions, which made her feel guilty of all troubles; she had befallen her husband and her. For all those years, I have been suffering because of a pasted necklace? Why didn’t I know that it was not an original diamond necklace? Why didn’t I tell Madame Forestier that her necklace had got lost, it could have saved me and my husband all the agony and shame that we had undergone for ten sold years? Why? Why? And many more questions had rung into her head as she blames herself.
This is something that has tutored her, it has haunted her consciousness, made her regret why she had borrowed it in the first place. This is one of many incidences that sully happen to us; we borrow something nice from our friends to use for a short time, then we return. If anything happens to the item, we feel offended, to tell the truth to the owner, we struggle through our means to ensure that we have replaced the item and return it in good condition. The fear of being seen as careless or thief engraves our heart to extend that we cannot tell the truth no matter what. We swallow the bitter bills all alone, where else if we could have gathered courage and faced the reality, we would avoid a series of agony and misery like this one that befalls Mathilde Loise. If she was brave enough to face Madame Forestier and explain the whole story to her, let her know that she intends to replace it with another one, gather the information concerning where the necklace was bought from, she could have saved herself and her husband a lot of stress that they had undergone for ten years.
The necklace story tries to bring out the need of telling the truth before a situation gets worse. Although the truth hurts in some situation it is good, to tell the truth before one commits him/herself to do something that will change his or her life forever.