THE NECKLACE DATELINE SERIES
"The Necklace" (1949), the first episode of the NBC-TV series Your Show Time (producer Stanley Rubin won the first-ever Emmy Award for this episode).A String of Pearls (1926 film) (《 一串珍珠》) ( 1926), a Chinese film directed by Li Zeyuan.The Diamond Necklace (1921), a British silent film directed by Denison Clift and starring Milton Rosmer, Jessie Winter, and Warwik Ward.The following are direct adaptations of "The Necklace": This story represents a world in which people search for happiness in material wealth. The story demonstrates the value of honesty had Mathilde told Madame Forestier the truth, she would likely have been able to replace the necklace easily. She believes that material wealth will bring her joy, and her pride prevents her from admitting to Madame Forestier that she is not rich and that she has lost the necklace she borrowed.īecause of her pride and obsession with wealth, Mathilde loses ten years of her life and spends all of her savings on replacing the necklace only to find out that the original necklace was a fake. Mathilde is gripped by a greed that contrasts with her husband's kind generosity. Madame Loisel is beautiful on the outside but inside she is discontented with her less-than-wealthy lifestyle. One of the themes in The Necklace is the dichotomy between reality and appearance. A horrified Jeanne reveals that the necklace she had lent to Mathilde was made of paste and worth no more than 500 francs ($3,164.26 USD). Mathilde tells Jeanne about the loss and replacement of the necklace and of the hard times she has endured on Jeanne's account, blaming her for the misery of the past decade. After all the loans are paid off, Mathilde encounters Jeanne by chance on the Champs-Élysées however, Jeanne barely recognizes her owing to her shabby clothing and unkempt appearance. Loisel and Mathilde move into a shabby apartment and live in poverty for ten years, with him taking on night work as a copyist to earn extra money and her sacrificing her beauty to work as a charwoman. Mathilde gives the necklace to Jeanne without mentioning the loss of the original and Jeanne does not notice the difference. Loisel uses an inheritance from his father to cover half the cost and borrows the rest at high interest. At the Palais-Royal shops they find a similar necklace priced at 40,000 francs (approx. Unable to find it or anyone who knows where it may have gone, they resign themselves to buying a replacement. Once she and Loisel return home, though, she discovers that she has lost Jeanne's necklace. Mathilde enjoys herself at the ball, dancing with influential men and reveling in their admiration. The only item she borrows is a diamond necklace.
She spurns Loisel's idea of wearing fresh flowers but takes his suggestion of borrowing some jewelry from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. Even after Mathilde does so, she is still unhappy because she has no jewels to wear with it. $2,531.20 USD in 2022) – all the money he had been saving to go hunting with his friends – so she can buy a dress. Upset at her displeasure, Loisel gives her 400 francs (approx. Mathilde refuses to go for she has nothing to wear and wishes not to be embarrassed. After much effort, he secures for them an invitation to a ball sponsored by the Ministry of Education.
Her husband is a low-paid clerk who tries his best to make her happy but has little to give. Madame Mathilde Loisel has always imagined herself an aristocrat, yearning for wealth and admiration despite having been born into a family of clerks.
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