Greed And Jealousy In 'The Necklace'

'Man who drops a watch in a toilet is bound to have a crappy time.” - Chinese proverb. “The Necklace” is an interesting tale that takes place during 19th century France. The cause and effect of this story’s plot is both pretty straightforward and ironic about how greed and jealousy are cruel mistresses.
The first cause that starts this shindig is the caste system in 1800’s France. The effect is that when the main character Madame Loisel is born into a caste that she feels to low for her standards(this is also a cause). The effect when she gets married she becomes angry at the husband because they have mixed views about their current caste (place in society.) The husband is grateful for everything his job, his wife, the invitation he scored to go to a party that
The invitation is the whole thing that seems to kick off this rollercoaster when the wife starts griping about girl problems. The griping is both an effect and a cause when the husband sets aside his hard earned money that he wanted to buy a gun with to hunt with his friends. And instead buy his wife a dress for the party. The effect from the dress was that she (the wife) wanted a necklace, so she borrowed her friends diamond necklace. The party isn’t really that important event wise since nothing happens so, let's skip forwards to the end of the party. During the walk home from the party the wife notices the necklace is missing. This causes the couple to look frantically around for the supposedly expensive necklace. In the end no necklace to return to the friend so, Madame Loisel decides to buy a new one. One problem, the husband is the only worker of the two so he makes all the money, but he can’t cause he doesn’t have any left after buying the dress. As a result they go into a lot of debt and after 10 years they pay it off. This causes them to be poorer than poor