Madam Loisel

               

                Fate plays a lot in the story “The Necklace”. It places the main character in a position of debt and poverty caused not by her own actions but a predestined whim.

                Mme. Loisel struggles with wanting pretty things and to look rich in a poor family. Receiving an invitation to a ball that would ruin her life forever, Mme. Loisel acts quickly and buys a nice dress and borrows a necklace that she could not afford to lose. Readers should, at this point, assume it is fate. After losing what she thought was a diamond necklace, Mme. Loisel immediately goes out to find another to replace what she had lost. Over the next ten years, Mme. Loisel and her husband would work to pay it off. Only to find that the necklace they replaced was a fake. Fate had preordained that she would misplace the necklace and have to work to pay it off.

                Although Mme. Loisel's destiny was not the best thing to happen to her she persevered, and the choices she made were dealt with in a well mannered way. Loisel's impoverishment strengthened her in ways neither her nor her husband could understand.