The closing sentences of "The Necklace" are ironic because of the sharp contrast between Mathilde Loisel's beliefs and the reality of which she is totally ignorant until her friend enlightens her. This is situational irony. Mathilde is proud of the fact that she and her husband were able to pay for a replacement for the lost necklace, after ten years of hard work and privation, without Madame Forestier suspecting that the original necklace...
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