The protagonist of this work is described as suffering endlessly from the poorness of her house, and feeling she was born for luxury.
The protagonist of this work is described as suffering endlessly from the poorness of her house, and feeling she was born for luxury. Tears over having nothing to wear cause her husband to give her the four-hundred francs he had been saving to buy himself a gun. The plot thickens after the Minister of Education's ball, when the protagonist realizes she has lost something she was wearing. She, Mathilde, and her  husband, Monsieur Loisel are therefore forced to labor in poverty for ten years to replace it. FTP, the title object, borrowed from Madame Forestier, is revealed at the end to be a fake in what short story by Guy de Maupassant?
The protagonist of this work is described as suffering endlessly from the poorness of her house, and feeling she was born for luxury.
The Necklace or La Parure