Final Timed Writing

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Jascha Pan

June 21, 2007

Timed-Writing Three

From the Necklace, what might have been the quality of Mme. Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace? Is her life better or worse now?

In my point of view, Mme. Loisel’s life might not change a lot. If she had not lost the necklace she borrowed from her friend, maybe another tragedy might happen to her. It completely depends on the characteristic of Mme. Loisel and the contemporary social environment.

Let’s imagine the story if Mme. Loisel had not lost the necklace. She was quite shining in the ball, and quite a number of men present appreciated her beauty. If the necklace had not gone lost, she might be a new star among the upper-class, and everyone would pay attention to this glamorous girl. Thus, maybe there would be some men who showed love to her, and according to her characteristic, her intense ambition to live a luxurious life, she would abandon her husband. But while she really had a new life in the upper-class society, maybe life was not what she used to want or the men did not really love her and could not give Loisel a good life. So her life was not satisfactory to her and even worse now.

The tragedy that happened on her was not a haphazard, and that was due to her personality. Everyone wants to pursue a better life, but Mme. Loisel went to the extreme. Losing the necklace might be karma which gave her a lesson. The characteristic was the most important factor that leads to her unhappiness.

She paid the next ten years to this fake necklace. Why her so-called friend gave her a fake necklace? I think those people in the upper-class always looked down on the ordinary people and Loisel did not belong to that society and also will not. Their arrogance was not easy to break up. The hierarchy of the society is what Mme. Loisel cannot overcome. 

In conclusion, Mme. Loisel might still live as common people and her life will not be better or even worse.