Question

In the short story the necklace, how do you think Mathilde and her husband reacted to the news the necklace was only worth 500 francs

Answer 1

I think she realized how selfish it is to have a need to be gorgeous. Then, she porbably thought, beauty is an insolent, petty thing. It is what you do that counts. Then she went to tell her husband she loves him and that she is sorry, for her self obsession