The Necklace: Should She Return It?
Christine Nguyen
Mrs. Chau-Lee
English H P.5
3 October 2014
Should She Return It? What would you do? If you lost something valuable you borrowed from your friend and you bought a replacement without telling her that is worth a lot more than the original? In Mathilde’s situation this is exactly what happened. Mme. Forestier should return the difference in value of the original necklace and the replacement because even though Mathilde is not the richest girl, she still bought another diamond necklace and spent the next decade of her life attempting to pay off her debt. Mme. Forestier should return the difference value between the original necklace and the one that Mathilde bought as a replacement because Mathilde is poor. As said in the story …show more content…
Imagine how she felt when she received the information that it was not even worth half as much as the necklace she replaced. Through all that time laboring to pay off the borrowed necklace, Mathilde has lost her natural beauty. As said on page 168, “She became heavy, rough, harsh, like one of the poor. her hair untended, her skirts askew, her hands red, her voice shrill, she even slopped water on her floors and scrubbed them herself.” Her friend Mme. Forestier did not even recognize Mathilde when they meet a decade later because after doing all that hard work to pay off the necklace, Mathilde’s charming appearance also washed away. The view that Mathilde carelessly lost the borrowed necklace so that it is her fault that she was so irresponsible might sound convincing at first but, it is not true because in the story on page 167, it stated, “They hunted everywhere, through the folds of the dress, through the folds of the coat, in the pockets. They found nothing.” This proves that they tried to their best of abilities to look for the necklace, and even after that did not work, they went off to search for a similar necklace to replace for Mme. Forestier. This proves that Mathilde was very hard working for ten years in order to pay off a friend’s
Mrs. Chau-Lee
English H P.5
3 October 2014
Should She Return It? What would you do? If you lost something valuable you borrowed from your friend and you bought a replacement without telling her that is worth a lot more than the original? In Mathilde’s situation this is exactly what happened. Mme. Forestier should return the difference in value of the original necklace and the replacement because even though Mathilde is not the richest girl, she still bought another diamond necklace and spent the next decade of her life attempting to pay off her debt. Mme. Forestier should return the difference value between the original necklace and the one that Mathilde bought as a replacement because Mathilde is poor. As said in the story …show more content…
Imagine how she felt when she received the information that it was not even worth half as much as the necklace she replaced. Through all that time laboring to pay off the borrowed necklace, Mathilde has lost her natural beauty. As said on page 168, “She became heavy, rough, harsh, like one of the poor. her hair untended, her skirts askew, her hands red, her voice shrill, she even slopped water on her floors and scrubbed them herself.” Her friend Mme. Forestier did not even recognize Mathilde when they meet a decade later because after doing all that hard work to pay off the necklace, Mathilde’s charming appearance also washed away. The view that Mathilde carelessly lost the borrowed necklace so that it is her fault that she was so irresponsible might sound convincing at first but, it is not true because in the story on page 167, it stated, “They hunted everywhere, through the folds of the dress, through the folds of the coat, in the pockets. They found nothing.” This proves that they tried to their best of abilities to look for the necklace, and even after that did not work, they went off to search for a similar necklace to replace for Mme. Forestier. This proves that Mathilde was very hard working for ten years in order to pay off a friend’s