Question

What does madame loisel hope to gain from wearing the necklace she borrowed from her friend

Answer 1

Madame loisel hopes to gain Self respect

Answer 2

Loisel hopes to gain self-respect by wearing the necklace she borrowed from her friend. Without expensive jewellery she would feel like a nobody at the party. As she says: "there's nothing so humiliating as looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women