Reading Journal

Title: The Necklace
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Genre: Short stories
Publication date: 1884
Rating: 3/5
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Vocabulary words:'
Gallantries - Nobility of spirit or action; courage.
Bewilderment - The condition of being confused or disoriented.
(thefreedictionary.com)

The Necklace is about a girl who wants to be rich, but she marries a lowly clerk. They get invited to a party for the Minister of Education. Her husband gives her a dress, but has to borrow jewelry from her rich friend. After the party she loses the jewelry and needs to by a new one. She borrows money to pay for a new one and she works for 10 years before she could pay the money. Then she meets her rich friends that she borrowed the jewelry from. She says the one she borrowed was a copy and was not worth much at all.