CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -At the Palais-Royal shops they find a similar necklace priced at 40, 000 francs (approx. $253, 141.59 USD in 2022) and bargain for it, eventually settling at 36, 000 ($227, 827.40 USD). Loisel uses an inheritance from his father to cover half the cost and borrows the rest at high interest.

Detailed explanation-2: -After a week, when the necklace could not be found, they decided to replace it with a similar one. They found a similar necklace priced at 36000 francs. Fortunately M. Loisel had inherited 18000 francs from his father and the rest he borrowed.

Detailed explanation-3: -However, after years of paying off the necklace, Mathilde learns that the necklace cost maybe 500 francs, which was approximately 100 USD. In today’s dollars, it is still a considerable amount of money-about 3, 000 dollars-but much less than the Loisels ended up paying.

Detailed explanation-4: -The necklace was wrote by the French writer Guy De Maussapant in 1884. In the story, Madame Loisel payed 36, 000 francs (108, 000 US dollars) for a necklace. In 1884, 36, 000 francs would be mass amounts of money. In 1880 a house would cost a couple hundred US dollars.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eventually, they could not find it and decided to replace it. They went to a shop of the Palais-Royal where they found a chaplet of diamonds, which seemed to them exactly like the one they had lost. They bought it for thirty-six thousand dollars.