Loisel to ask her friend Mme. Forestier for some jewlery to borrow. Forestier was a 'former schollmate from the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go and see anymore, because she suffered so muchwhen she came back" (Maupassant 178). She however made an exception this time and made Mme. Forestier a visit. Mathilde borrowed a beautiful diamond necklace for the ball. It finally arrived. The night for all of Mathilde's dreams to come true. Mathilde was ready to go to the ball. She of course looked and felt absolutelty ravishing. Mathilde was the hit of the ball and she knew it. She felt like she belong with the upper class families. She felt that this was how she was supposed to live her life. M.Loisel and Mme. Loisel eventually went home. When Mathilde goes to take off her necklace she realizes that it is gone. She had lost it at some point during the night. Mathilde and her huband go to different jewlery stores to find a necklace to replace the one that was lost. They find a replica. The only problem .
is that it costs thirty- six thousand francs. They had only eighteen thousand francs and it had caused them to borrow the rest form their friends and family. Maupassant proves his point that you become what you hate by how Mathilde had to live her life following the loss of the necklace. M. Loisel and Mme. Loisel, "dismissed their servant; they changed their lodgings; they rented a garret under the roof" by just these small changes it had already mader her life worse off then before(Maupassant 182). Because they had no servant, mathilde head to perform the following: She came to know what heavy housewrok meant and the odious cares of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, using her rosy nails on the greasy pots and pans. She washed the dirty linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line; she carried the slops down to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping for breathe at every landing.