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Mathilde is a young women who struggles to comprehend her place in society and it married to a clerk named monsieur, they are an average middle class family who do very well and can afford servants and other services , but yet she still lusts for a more fulfilled richer life that she sees her friend living.
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As she is getting ready, she puts on her dress she feels displeaseament as she looks at herself, seeing how middle class she looks and desperately wanted some exquisite jewelry, that her dear friend has enquired due to her higher place in society, so she asked for a fine piece of jewelry
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With no hope in finding it, they devised a plan to buy some time by saying the clip had broke and they had sent it to get fixed
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as she strolls through the party, she becomes a wear that many men are staring at her ever present beauty, she feels like she is on cloud nine as she strolls through the party. Later on she discovers that she has lost her necklace that her friend had given her, she tells her husband who looks for it with no return, so they alert the police to no avail
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As a last resort they ended up liquidating a lot of their funds and also loaning money to pay for an exact replica worth more than they could ever afford so they had to subside a lot of their maids and other services. Methide and her husband ended up having to take jobs to pay off their ever present debt through hard work, when they gave her the necklace back she didnt even open it and just placed it with her other jewelry
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10 years on Methide and her husband had worked to the bone to pay off the debt, to the sacrifice of her once radiant beauty, she later on confessed to her friend about the whole ordeal many moons ago, to the response of that the necklace was a fake and all that hard work was for nothing.