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A Fools Payment

t also showed how the necklace symbolized the downfall of the Loisels when he wrote how they purchased a replacement necklace:[They paid with the]eighteen thousand francs that his father had left himborrowed, asking a thousand francs from one, five hundred from another, five louis here, three louis there. He wrote promissory notes, undertook ruinous obligations, did business with finance companies and the whole tribe of loan sharks. He compromised himself for the remainder of his days, risked his signature without knowing whether he would be able to honor it,[Then] he went to get the new necklace, and put down thirty-six thousand francs on the jewelers counter. (8-9)Mr. Loisel risked ruination to pay for his wifes stupidity and greed. Not only did he take on terrible debts, but he worked on many side jobs just to help get the bills paid. Thus, he was risking his health as well as his names value. The debt had to be paid, the small family moved into an attic apartment and released the maid. Very quickly, Mathilde realized how comfortable her previous lifestyle had been in contrast to her new sufferings. Since Mathilde lost her friends necklace, she had to pay for her misdeeds. She learned to do the heavy housework, dirty kitchen jobs. she took the garbage down to the street,dressed in cheap dresses,[and] went to the fruit dealer, the grocer, the butchers[and kept] defending her measly cash penny by penny (Maupassant 9). The poverty that was brought on by the disappearance of the necklace altered the Loisels previous lifestyle to where they were struggling to stay afloat. Finally, the necklace is used to show Mathildes regret. After ten years, they had paid back everything (Maupassant 9), and the impoverished life had hardened Mathilde. She no longer looked young and fresh and she had grown old before her time, all because of the necklace and that one night of revelry. Even though she had become a common woman, sometimes,s...

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