The Snowflake Necklace

The Snowflake Necklace In Guy de Maupassant's story, "The Necklace” the main character Madame Mathilde Loisel wants to have more than what she can afford. She borrows her friend Madame Forestier’s necklace to go to a ball and later loses it. So Madame Loisel works herself haggard to buy a similar necklace to replace the original. However life is full of irony and at the end of the story she realizes that the necklace …

…quarter of the price she paid for the second one. Irony can help us survive our problems and not to overload with them. Life has a funny why to teach us a lesson and to help us out with it. We have to be proud of what we are, not matter how much money we have and not compare ourselves with others. Madame Loisel for being to haggard, she destroys her on dreams and ambitions.