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    7. the Necklace

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    NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English The Necklace

    1. What kind of a person is Mme Loisel − why is she always


    unhappy?
    Ans: Mme. loisel is a dreamy woman. She gives much value to her dreams.
    She over-looks 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?


    Ans: 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.

    1. What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?


    Ans: 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?


    Ans: 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.

    1. What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?


    Ans: 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.

    1. The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace.


    Comment.
    Ans: 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?
    Ans: 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?
    Ans: 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.

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