When her husband asks her why, she frets that she has no jewelry to wear with her dress. The week of the party, Mathilde seems anxious again.
Her kind husband agrees to give her the four hundred francs that he had been saving to buy a new rifle to get herself a gown.
She complains that she has nothing suitable to wear to such an extravagant occasion. He thinks his wife will be excited to attend such a fancy party, but instead she is upset. One day her husband brings home an invitation to a ball. She envies her friend Jeanne who has a large house and lots of jewelry. Their lives are not luxurious, but they are not poor, merely simple. Mathilde Loisel lives in a flat with her husband, who works as a clerk for the Minister of Education. The short story "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant takes place in France several hundred years ago.
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