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Dishonesty In The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

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Dishonesty can change and ruin someone’s life. People think that it is easier to cover u the truth, but nothing can stay hidden forever. Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace” shows how dishonesty can change someone’s life for the worse. In “The Necklace”, a woman named Mathilde Loisle is invited and goes to a ball. For the ball, she gets a new dress and borrows a necklace from another woman named Madame Forestier. On the way back from the ball, Mathilde loses the necklace. The couple needs to buy some time so they decide to write Mathilde’s friend. In Guy’s story her husband says, “You must write your friend… tell her that you’re getting it mended.” (539) The couple thinks that they could avoid letting her friend find out and call
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