Life Is So Ironic
...h she looks on the path that she had taken to the party. In order to give the necklace back to her friend, she has to buy another one which seems exactly like the one she lost. However, a real diamond necklace is very expensive. In order to buy the necklace, Mathilde and her husband borrow money from their friends. Finally they have enough money to buy the necklace, but they now have a lot of debt. For ten years, they work hard to pay off the debt. One day after the long ten years, the wife meets her friend on the street. She tells the whole story to her friend, and her friend tells her that the original necklace that she lent to her was not a real diamond, but was paste. It was not worth too much. At the end, the wife found out that she had made a mistake which is also the most obvious ironic part of the story. At first she thought that the necklace cost a lot of money, however, at the end of the story, the owner of the necklace tells her that it was not worth too much. I think after she found out that the necklace was paste, she might feel that those past ten years she worked for nothing. Besides the irony of the necklace, there are also several ironies in the story. At the beginning of the story, Guy de Maupassant, the author, describes the wife as a middle class woman who is seeking a chance to join the upper class society. However, she chose to marry a little clerk who is not rich, and he is not from the upper class of society. This is one of the ironies of the wife＊s life. Another irony in the story is about the husband. In order to be a clerk, he must be an honest man. However, when his wife lost her friend＊s necklace, he did not ask her to tell the truth to her friend, but he tried to conceal the truth together with his wife. In her article, Karen Bernardo wrote, ※The central discovery of the story 每 that the jewels were fake 每 is, therefore, not really the point of the story at all. The point of the story is that pride goeth before a fall 每 a...