The Necklace is a short story written by Guy De Maupassant several hundred years ago in France it portrays several characters and the consequences they face. Mathilde Loisel was a middle class women living with her husband in an apartment
. She was fascinated always to lead a royal life but her husband could not afford that life and she was always envious about her neighbor Jeanne
. Her husband decides to make her happy he however manages to get an invitation for the ball
.
He thought his wife could be happy but she was all stressed about what to wear her husband manages to sell a riffle and save 400 francs for the dress
. She was then complaining that she had nothing to wear and decides to borrow a diamond necklace from her neighbor and the necklace went missing in the ball
. So they had to sell all their property to pay back the debt for the new necklace they have bought
. Finally she discovered from Jeanne that the necklace was fake.
1. There was already existing hostility towards Japanese Americans, but it was exacerbated following Pearl Harbor. Executive Order 9066 led to Japanese relocation.
2. The Japanese Americans were initially not permitted to enlist after Pearl Harbor happened. Then when they were, a segregated unit was made for them in the armed forces.
