Final Time Writing
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Sophia Ruan
June 21, 2007
Time-writing Three
From the Necklace, what might have been the quality of Mme. Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace? Is her life better or worse now?
As vanity was planted deeply into Mme. Loisel’s mind, even if she had not lost the necklace, her life would not be improved a lot. From my viewpoint, though she might lead an easier life without the oppressive debt caused by the lost necklace, but her life is rarely better than the original one. It is nothing but her characteristic of vanity that determines her fate.
To figure out this problem, we have to find out the essential cause of Mme. Loisel’s tough life. She as well as her husband had to work from dawn to dusk for twenty years in order to pay back the debt borrowed to buy a new necklace which was meant to cover for the lost one. And the original necklace was borrowed from her friend to and lost in the party. As a matter of fact, a necklace was unnecessary for the party. The reason why Mathilde insisted on wearing one was her vanity, dominated by which she thought that a beautiful woman like her ought to have the fairest evening wear and jewelries and dress like a princess. So she urged her husband to buy her a new dress and borrowed a necklace from her friend, which were all done to cater for her vanity. As is said, vanity led to her tragic life and it is her destiny.
The lost of the necklace was just an occasional incident. Even if Mme. Loisel had not lost the necklace, other forms of these “incidents” would have happened in her life as long as her vanity still existed in her mind. What the probable circumstance would be like is that she does not have to work so hard and struggle for the debt for years, while her husband has no choice but work even harder to satisfy her. They are not to become rich but to stay poor all their lives, the quality of which is low, and their life is hardly better. Perhaps twenty years of the terrible owing-debt life gave her an opportunity to speculate her fault which could not be obtained in other circumstances.