The Necklace

-Guy De Maupassant

A Victim of Fat

Matilda Loisel was a pretty girl, who was unfortunately born in a family of clerks. Having no fortune or dowry, she married a clerk in the Board of Education. She was simple but unhappy. Her poverty tormented her. When her husband sat down enthusiastically for his potpie dinner, she would fantasise of grand dinner services. She had no dresses or jewels and yearned only for them. She had a rich f…