M.
Loisel is actually more to blame than his wife for the miseries they suffered during the years
it took to pay for the replacement necklace. Many readers have questioned why Mme. Loisel
doesn't simply go to her friend Mme. Forestier and tell her the truth, offering to pay for the
lost necklace in installments. She would have found out that she only owed her friend about five
hundred francs and could have paid her immediately. But M. Loisel has a different
idea.
"You must write to your friend," said he,
"that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are having it mended. That
will give us time to turn round."
She wrote at his dictation.
At the end of a week they had lost all hope. Loisel, who had aged five years,
declared:
"We must consider how
to replace that ornament."
Without her husband's
interference, Mathilde would have had no choice but to go to her friend and confess she had lost
her necklace. M. Loisel is concerned about his position at the Ministry of Public...
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