The theme of "The Necklace" most definitely concerns the danger of attaching too much importance to material things. The way in which this premise is evidenced in the story is by showing how the greediness of Mathilde Loisel has grown so disproportionately throughout the years, that all it took was one event--one very simple event-- to cause her ruin. This ruin stems from another very simple fact: While Mathilde feels that she deserves...
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