CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -She and her husband worked hard for ten years to repay the debt. In the end, she came to know that the necklace was made of artificial diamonds.

Detailed explanation-2: -The replacement cost more money than they make, and it takes them ten years to pay it off. Climax: After ten years of hard work and struggles, the couple pays off all their debts. Falling Action: One day Mathilde is walking to the market and sees the friend that she borrowed the necklace from.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mathilde says that the change was on her account and explains to her the long saga of losing the necklace, replacing it, and working for ten years to repay the debts. At the end of her story, Madame Forestier clasps her hands and tells Mathilde the original necklace was just costume jewelry and not worth anything.

Detailed explanation-4: -Loisel and Mathilde spend the next ten years in poverty, working long and toilsome hours, slowly repaying the debts incurred for the extravagant necklace they bought to replace the one Mathilde lost. Shortly after all their debts are paid, Mathilde runs into her old friend Jeanne at the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

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.