“SHE WAS one of those pretty, charming young ladies, born, as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no hopes, no means of becoming known, appreciated, loved, and married by a man either rich or distinguished; and she allowed herself to marry a petty clerk in the office of the Board of Education. . . .
She had neither frocks nor jewels, nothing. And she loved only those things. She felt that she was made for them. She had such a desire to please, to be sought after, to be clever, and courted.”
—THE NECKLACE Guy de Maupassant France, 1884 (pic by Grok)
Read this short story here: https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/short-story/the-necklace
