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exposition
Matilde is a beautiful young woman, she belongs in the "middle class" of the Sevillians in France, she says she doesn't feel like she belongs in todays society and everyone is still stick in categorizing people -
rising action
her husband, Mon, Loisel gets them an invitation to a party where people are very well dressed and privledged of themselves. she tells her husband "i have nothing to wear'' clothing and jewelry wise. so she gets told to go and see her friend madam forester -
climax
she goes to her house and ask if she has any jewelry that she could borrow for this party. so she hands her necklace with diamonds all over and it looks more then expensive she ends up finding that every man at this party is complimenting or asking to be introduced due to her beautiful necklace. as the night becomes dark she realizes that she had lost this necklace. -
falling action
the only resolution she can think of is giving her a necklace back that is similar until she finds the necklace that belonged to madam. she goes out and spends all pof her saving from the servants and the time on the house to pay for a new necklace for 3,000 frans. -
resolution
`10 years past and they pay off ll their dept. after losing all of their money from the necklace then when Matilde was walking down the street she ran into madam forester for the first time since the incident happened. she continued to explain what happened to the real necklace then madam forester explains "that necklace was only 500 francs and was fake