Beautiful and moving women in the world are often born in the family of a small clerk; This is exactly what we are going to talk about now. She has no dowry assets, no hope, and no way for a rich and powerful person to know her, understand her, love her and marry her; Finally, she will marry a small clerk in the Ministry of Education.

Can not pay attention to decoration, she is simple, but unfortunately like a fallen woman; Because women have no class, no family distinction, their beauty, their charm, their temptation is only for their birth and family background. Their natural alertness, outstanding instinct and obedient mind constitute their only rank, and they can hold folk women as high as the highest lady.

She felt that she was born for all the beautiful and luxurious things, so she felt pain. She was very sad because of the shabby house, rough walls, outdated furniture and vulgar materials.

All this may not be noticed by another woman in her position, but she is very sad and annoyed. Brittany's appearance of Meidochan, who helped her with trivial housework, caused her all kinds of sad regrets and cranky thoughts.

She dreamed of those quiet reception rooms, how to cover them with oriental curtains, how to light bronze high-legged lamps, how to send two tall waiters in shorts on call, and the hot air heater made both waiters doze off in the big round back chair. She dreams of a large living room covered with ancient wall clothes and exquisite furniture with priceless porcelain bottles.

She dreams of those delicate and fragrant little living rooms. At five o'clock in the afternoon, she can chat with her kind boyfriend and the celebrities that women envy and are eager to see.

However, in fact, every day when eating, she sits at the small round table opposite her husband. It took three days to change the white cloth on the table. As soon as the husband lifted the lid of Tang Chi, he said cheerfully, "Ha! Good broth! There is nothing better than it ... "

So she dreamed of a rich and exquisite banquet, brilliant silverware, embroidered with fairyland gardens, ancient ladies and exotic birds. She dreamed of the delicious food on expensive plates and the sweet words she listened to with a bright smile when eating pink bass or grouse wings.

She has no decent clothes, no jewelry and nothing. But that's what she likes, and she thinks she was born for it. She has long expected that she can please others, be envied, be tempted and be pursued.

She has a rich girlfriend, who is a female classmate in a church girls' school, but now she doesn't want to see her again, because it will always hurt to come back after seeing her. So because of her sadness, regret, disappointment and anxiety, one after another, she looked forward to one evening when her husband came back with a triumphant look, holding a big envelope in his hand.

"Look," he said, "this is something special for you." She quickly opened the envelope and drew an invitation from it, which read:

"Minister of education Iorgi? Mr. and Mrs. Lombono are honored to invite Mr. and Mrs. Russell to the party held in the headquarters building on Monday, 1 month 18. "

Her husband wanted her to be happy, but she threw the invitation on the table with a sad and angry expression and said coldly:

"What do you want me to do with this?"

"However, my dear friend, I think you may be very satisfied. You never go out, and this is an opportunity, this thing, a good opportunity! How hard it took me to get it. Everyone wants an invitation, which is hard to get, but not many copies are sent to colleagues. You can see all the politicians at the party in the future. "

She looked at him angrily, and then she shouted impatiently:

"What do you want me to wear to go there?"

He didn't think of this layer before; Prevaricated:

"However, you wore this dress to the theatre. I think this is very good, I ... "

Seeing his wife in tears, he stopped talking in surprise and confusion. Two big tears slowly flowed down from the corner of her eye in the direction of quarrel; He grinned and said, "What's the matter with you? How are you? "

But she suppressed her pain with great patience, wiped her wet face and replied in a calm voice: "Nothing. But I have no clothes, so I can't go to the party. If you have a colleague whose wife dresses better than me, you can give him this invitation. "

Origin: The Necklace, a short story by French writer Mo Bosang.

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Creative background:

65438- 1980 in France, capitalism developed viciously, the big bourgeoisie took power, plundered the people, government corruption prevailed, and social morality declined. The decadent life of the bourgeoisie and the mercenary moral concept have influenced the whole society, and the pursuit of pleasure and vanity has become a bad social atmosphere.

This social atmosphere is also common among the petty bourgeoisie. Because this class is extremely unstable in capitalist society, they always want to get rid of this situation and join the upper class. But only a few people succeeded, and most of them fell into a more tragic experience in the competition of capitalism.

In The Necklace, Mo Bosang is a chain structure in the plot order, with a necklace as the clue to unfold the story. This structure can intuitively express the development process of things, so that readers can easily and naturally understand the development context of the whole story.

The heroine of the necklace is the wife of a petty-bourgeois employee. She has a beautiful face and charm, and feels that she was born to enjoy all kinds of luxurious life. It can be seen that she is inevitably unwilling to live a dull life now, and will long for the luxury of the upper class. Therefore, Mo Bosang arranged a party for the Education Minister George Long Bono and his wife to satisfy Mathilde's vanity, which also triggered a series of stories.