CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -It costs 40, 000 francs, although the jeweler says he will give it to them for 36, 000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Forestier reveal that the necklace Mathilde lost was a fake.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does Madame Loisel eventually discover about the necklace? Madame Loisel eventually discovers that the necklace Madame Forestier gave her is fake and really 500 francs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Upset at her displeasure, Loisel gives her 400 francs (approx. $2, 531.20 USD in 2022) – all the money he had been saving to go hunting with his friends – so she can buy a dress. Even after Mathilde does so, she is still unhappy because she has no jewels to wear with it.

Detailed explanation-5: -They replaced the necklace by paying eighteen thousand francs, which his father had left him and borrowing the rest of the amount from usurers and money lenders. Then they changed their lodgings and rented an attic, got rid of the maid and Mme. Loisel did the housework herself.