In the short story "The Necklace" Madame Loisel wants to get a dress for the ball given by the Ministry of Education. She is already depressed that she only has one dress to wear, which is the dress with which she goes to the opera, so her husband offers to buy her a new one. Madame Loisel tells her husband that she could get one for 400 francs. However, this is the amount of money that her husband had been saving to get a hunting gun for a...
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