{"id":7637,"date":"2020-08-10T04:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T04:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:42:30","slug":"extended-ending-to-the-necklace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/7637","title":{"rendered":"Extended ending to “The Necklace”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was\nnot worth more than five hundred francs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Jeanne Forester had uttered those words,\nMrs. Loisel felt nothing and everything. Nothing, because she was so tired of\nthe trouble the necklace had stirred up for the past decade. Everything,\nbecause all she had done\u2014 all the washing and floor-scrubbing she had endured\nfor a decade<\/em>, all these arduous hardships<\/em> she had underwent nonstop for\nten years just to repay the thirty-six thousand-franc debt\u2014 was all for a fake\nthat costed merely five hundred francs. Oh, why had she been this timid? She\ncould\u2019ve just gone to Jeanne and apologize instead of buying a real diamond\nnecklace as a replica of Jeanne’s fake necklace. How stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Loisel wandered mindlessly back to her\nsmall, cramped apartment\u2014 the apartment she had moved to just to save more\nmoney to repay the debt<\/em>\u2014 and\nwondered. Wondered what would\u2019ve happened if she had the courage to swallow her\npride and tell Jeanne she had lost the necklace. Wondered what a glorious\ndecade she would\u2019ve had. Who knows? Life is indeed strange and full of twists.\nOne little thing can make all the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Loisel missed the young, pretty Matilda\nshe had once been. The Matilda who danced happily at parties. The Matilda who\nfussed over dresses and jewelry, and had never worried about the upcoming\ndebts. Ten years of work had rubbed away any trace of Matilda in Mrs. Loisel.\nShe was no longer the playful, pretty girl anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Loisel\u2019s self-pity turned into bitterness\nwhen the realisation dawned upon her. The realisation of her no longer being a\nyoung, pretty Matilda. The realisation of the awfulness she was now. How the\npretty Matilda had been hardened into a disheveled Mrs. Loisel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mr. Loisel had returned tiredly, he was\nconcerned about his wife. She looked like a shell without any trace of\nemotions. But his wife refused to tell him what was in her mind. In fact, only\none sentence swirled in her mind over and over again, like a broken recorder. It was not worth more than five hundred\nfrancs. <\/em>The precise sentence that had made her realise that everything she\nhad done was for nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Matilda Loisel might not be the pretty\nMatilda now, but she was as proud and demanding as ever. And she now desired\nmore. More, to repay her decade worth of hardships. More, because she still\nhadn\u2019t been shaped into a humble, poor Mrs. Loisel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, how she hated the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, Mrs. Loisel was wandering in the\npark mindlessly, for once in ten years free from all the heavy debts. Jeanne\nForester approached her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Good morning, Matilda. You said you had\nbought a diamond necklace for my lost glass necklace yesterday, right? I had\nthe necklace appraised yesterday, but the jewelry appraiser told me the\nnecklace was just glass! Did you really get me a diamond necklace?\u2019 Jeanne\nasked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, no wonder the jeweler was so willing to\ncut four thousand francs without persuasion. The necklace itself was a fake. It\nmight even be the same lost necklace. Matilda\u2019s bitterness grew into rage. She\nstormed away, leaving a confused Jeanne Forester in the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That night, a jewelry shop was burnt. To be\nprecise, the shop of the very jeweler, who sold the Loisels a thirty-six\nthousand-franc diamond necklace, was burnt down to melted glass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And from that day onwards, Mrs. Matilda Loisel\nwas never the same again. She was not the young, pretty Matilda, nor she was\nthe humble, disheveled Mrs. Loisel. She was a bitter, revengeful Mrs. Matilda\nLoisel who loathed the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would\u2019ve happened if Jeanne Forester\nhadn\u2019t told her about the fake necklace? Who knows? Life is indeed strange and\nfull of twists. One little thing can make all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wanot worth more than five hundred francs.<\/em><\/p>

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