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NCERT Solutions of The Necklace
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1. What kind of a person is Mme Loisel − why is she always unhappy?
Answer:- Mme. Loisel is a dreamy woman. She gives much value to her dreams. She overlooks the realities of life. That is why she is always unhappy because dreams can’t be true. She wants them to be true.
2. What kind of a person is her husband?
Answer:- Her husband is a very simple-hearted person. He is an ordinary person. He is a caring husband. He wants to see Mme. Loisel happy.
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1. What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?
Answer:- After buying a pretty dress, Mme Loisel was bothered by yet another problem. She had no jewel to adorn herself with. She said she would have a poverty-stricken look. Her husband suggested that she should wear some natural flowers. However, she refused and said that there was nothing more humiliating than to have a shabby air in the midst of rich women.
2. How is the problem solved?
Answer:- Mme Loisel’s husband solved this problem. He told his wife to request her friend, Mme Forestier to lend her some jewels. When she went to Mme Forestier, the latter brought a jewel case, so that Mme Loisel could choose whichever jewels she liked.
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1. What does M. and Mme Loisel do next?
Answer:- When M. and Mme Loisel realized that the necklace was missing, they tried finding out where she could have lost it. They concluded that it could have been dropped in the cab. They did not know its number. Therefore, Loisel went over the track where they had walked. When he found nothing, he went to the police and to the cab offices. He even put an advertisement in the newspapers, offering a reward. He then asked Matilda to write a letter to Mme Forestier, explaining that she had broken the clasp of the necklace and would get it repaired. This gave them time to find the necklace. However, they eventually decided to replace the necklace with a new one.
Thinking about the text
1. The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace.
Answer:- The course of the Loisel’s life changed due to the necklace. After replacing the lost necklace with a new one, they had to replay all the money that they had borrowed to buy the new necklace. They sent away the maid and changed their lodgings. They rented some rooms in an attic. Matilda learnt the odious work of a kitchen. She washed the dishes, soiled linen, their clothes and dishcloths. She took down the refuse to the street each morning and brought up the water, stopping at each landing to catch her breath. She went to the grocer’s, the butcher’s, and the fruiter’s, with her basket on her arm, shopping, haggling to save her money. Loisel worked in the evenings, putting the books of some merchants in order. At night, he did copying at five sous a page. This lasted for ten years, and at the end of the said period, they were able to repay their lenders.
2. What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?
Answer:- The cause of Matilda’s ruin was her dissatisfaction with whatever life offered her. She was always unhappy. She felt that she was born for all the delicacies and luxuries. She disliked her circumstances.
She could have avoided the ruin by being content with what she had.
3. What would have happened to Matilda if she had confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace? Answer:- If Matilda would have confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace, she might have been in lesser trouble than what she faced after having replaced the necklace. Her friend would definitely have been angry with her. Most probably, she would have asked Matilda to replace it. She would have given her the details from where she had bought the necklace and how much it had cost her. Matilda would thus have known that the jewels in the necklace were not real diamonds. It would have cost her a far lesser amount to replace it.
Matilda would thus have saved herself and her husband all the trouble they went through.
4. If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?
Ans. If I caught in a situation like this, I would have gone to my friend from whom I had borrowed the necklace. Then I would have confessed before her that I had lost the necklace. I paid the cost of the necklace to her directly if she demanded.
Talk about it (Page 46)
1. The characters in this story speak in English. Do you think this is their language? What clues are there in the story about the language its characters must be speaking in?
Ans. This story was originally written in French. So the language of the characters is not English. There are many clues to it. The names of the characters are essentially French. The currency mentioned in the story is `franc’, which is French. The names of places are French, for example, `Palais-Royal’, Champs-Elysees’ etc.
- Honesty is the best policy.
Ans. It is a well-known proverb that honesty is the best policy. Honesty is a great blessing. An honest person shines like a gem in the world. On the other hand, everyone dislikes a dishonest man. Honesty is like a weapon which enables man to face all the difficulties of life. In today’s life, an honest man may not become rich. He may not possess all the comforts of life. He may be troubled by difficulties. But still, he will never lose his peace of mind. An honest person is honoured and respected by everybody. In spite of his poverty, he leads a satisfied life. He has peace of mind. Therefore, we should be honest. It will earn us the respect of our friends.
- We should be content with what life gives us.
Ans. Contentment is the greatest of all virtues. We must learn to be content with what life gives us. God is all-powerful. He looks after all human beings. He gives us joys and sorrows, according to our fate. We must remember that we cannot get anything more than what written in our destiny. At the same time, we cannot get anything before the time fixed for it by our destiny. Those who are not content, lead a life of misery. A contented labourer is much better than a discontented millionaire. The labourer works hard, earns some money, then has a sound sleep at night. It is because he is contented. On the other hand, a businessman earns millions, but still spends sleepless nights. He wants to earn more and more. That is a miserable life. In this story, Matilda suffers because she is not contented with her lot.
