The Necklace

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   clane Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   Mathilde lives in the apartment at the opening of the story and is very discontent with the life she leads. She wants very much to be famous and wealthy. She is not poor, but in comparison with what she desires she appears to be when she reflect upon her own life.

   At the party she gets a glimpse of the life she's always wanted. Every man at the party wishes to dance with her and every woman at the party wants to be her and wonders who this beautiful woman is and where she came from.

   In the attic flat Mathilde learns her lesson. Had she been content with her previous life she would have seen it for all that it was, not all that she thought it was lacking. Only now in the flat can she see that her life was not nearly as meager as she had made it out to be. 

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