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Key points

 Matilda was pretty, young lady born in the family of clerks.
 She was married to a pretty clerk in the office of the Board of education, as she was
having no dowry to marry a rich man.
 Matilda was simple but unhappy.
 She suffered incessantly, feeling herself born for all delicacies and luxuries.
 She suffered from poverty and shabby walls and worn chairs that make her tortured
and angered her.
 She thought of the exquisite food served in marvellous dishes. She had neither frocks
nor jewels nothing she thinks for that only.
 One evening her husband returned home with an invitation for party at minister’s
residence.
 Instead of being delighted. She was sad and unhappy.
 It was because she was not having perfect dress for the occasion.
 Finally she had beautiful dress of four hundred Frances.
 But even then she was disturbed anxious as having no jewel to adorn herself.
 She went to her friend Mme Forestier and brought superb necklace of diamonds.
 The day of ball arrived. Matilda was a great success. She was prettiest of all elegant,
gracious, smiling and full of joys.
 She danced with enthusiasm, intoxicated with pleasure.
 After returning from the party to her home she removed the wraps from her
shoulders before the glass for a find view of herself in her glory.
 Suddenly she uttered a cry. Her necklace was not around her neck.
 They searched for the necklace everywhere in the folds of the dress, in the clock, in
pockets, in the street, in the cab but didn’t found it.
 After losing all hopes after a week they purchased exactly like the one they had lost,
for thirty-six thousand.
 They possessed eighteen thousand francs and borrowed the rest.
 And returned the necklace to Mme Forestier.
 This leads them to horrible life of frightful debt, changed their lodgings, done odious
work.
 The husband worked evenings, day and for maximum time and this life lasted up to
ten years.
 At the end of the years, they had restored all.
Summary
Matilda was young and pretty lady she was from into a family of clerks she was simple and
had married a pretty office clerk. She dared not to visit his friendly school mate’s house
which was richly furnished. One day Mr.Loisel and Mme.Loisel get invitation to dinner from
the Minister of public instruction. The husband got elected to get the select invitation but the
wife got irritated because she didn’t have proper clothes and jewellery to wear. Her husband
took her money to buy a dress. At her husband’s suggestion, Mme.Loisel went to Mme
Forestier’s house, she got ready to lend her entire jewellery. However she borrowed only the
diamond necklace.
Mme. Loisel danced at the ball with enthusiasm. She looked pretty; it made her swell with
joy. Her husband wrapped her shoulders in poor wraps. They hired a carriage and reached
home instantly she noticed that the necklace was missing. They had looked all around but
they didn’t found it, then Loisel found a chaplet of diamonds in a shop. It was exactly like the