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Guy De Maupassant ended The Necklace rather abruptly. This leaves the reader in an awkward position because they have no idea how Madame Loisel spends the rest of her life. Therefore it becomes quite difficult to argue if she learned any valuable lessons from he ....

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.... from the “worn out chairs,” and from the “ugliness of the curtains.” All those things that another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, “tortured her and made her angry.” Even the sight of her servant would cause her to daydream of “two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove.” “She thought of the long salons fitted up with ancient silk, of the delicate furniture carrying priceless curiosities, and of the coquettish perfumed boudoirs made for talks at five o’clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all wo ....