Answer these questions briefly after you have read the story carefully:

(a) Do you think Madame Loisel was happy with her marriage with an ordinary clerk? Quote examples from the lesson to substantiate your answer.

(b) Why did Madame Loisel avoid visiting her friend?

(c) On learning about the invitation to the ball Madame Loisel behaved in a surprising manner. What surprised her husband?

(d) What were the problem that made her feel reluctant to go to the ball?

(e) The story says that Mathilde was a great success at the ball. Quote the lines from the story that tells you this.

(f) In spite of being a great success at the ball Mathilde could not enjoy her success for long. Why was it so?

(g) ‘All was ended for her.’ This statement has more than one meaning. Explain the different meanings of this particular statement.

(i) Who does ‘her’ refer to?

(ii) What were the things that ended for her?

(h) In the end Madame Forestier comments ‘my necklace was paste!’ What does she mean by saying this?

(i) The following are the steps taken by Mathilde’s husband to try and find the lost necklace. They are jumbled up. Put them in the right order.

(i) Went to the cab companies

(ii) Visited the newspaper offices

(iii) Returned without any news

(iv) Went to the police headquarters

(v) Went back over the whole route to see whether he could find it

(j) Do you think it was right on the part of Madame Loisel to have borrowed the necklace? Why/Why not?

(k) What would you have done if you had been in place of Madame Loisel when the necklace was lost?

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Solution

(a) No, Madame Loisel was not happy with her marriage with an ordinary clerk. To substantiate this point, the narrator says,

“Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries. She was distressed at the poverty…’

(b) Madame Loisel avoided visiting her friend because she felt sad when she came back home.

(c) The husband was surprised because instead of being glad, Madame Loisel threw the invitation on the table.

(d) She felt reluctant to go to the ball because she did not have an appropriate dress or jewels.

(e) The story says that Mattilde was a great success at the ball. The following lines help in this conclusion.

“She was prettier than any other woman present…. All the men who looked at her asked her name, sought to be introduced. All the attaches of the cabinet wished to waltz with her. She was remarked upon by the minister himself.”

(g) ‘All was ended for her’ at one level means that her success at the ball had ended. At another level, it means that the relatively comfortable life which she had led till then had ended.

(i) ‘Her’ refers to Madame Loisel.

(ii) The things that had ended for her were invitations to balls, the luxury of a servant, sufficient lodgings, etc.

(h) Madame Forestier means that her necklace was not real, but a fake copy.

(i) (i) Went back over the whole route to see whether he could find it

(ii) Went to the police headquarters

(iii) Visited the newspaper offices

(iv) Went to the cab companies

(v) Returned without any news

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1. Madame Loisel	1.	1. She was dissatisfied with her married life. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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3. Madame Forestier		1. 2.

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