CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Monsieur Loisel works three jobs, and Mathilde spends all her time doing the heavy housework. This misery lasts ten years, but at the end they have repaid their financial debts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: They lost a diamond necklace which she took from a friend and now they had to buy a diamond necklace worth sixty thousand dollars. It was not Mme Loisel’s mistake because Matilda didn’t tell her before buying a new diamond necklace. However, she had to live 10 years of painful life due to the necklace.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ans: Ten years of poverty and hardship steal away Matilda’s youth and beauty. She becomes strong and and hard woman, who is poorly dressed with untidy hair and reg ragged hands. As she has to live a hard life after the lost necklace of Mme Forestier that she returned and it cost her a fortune.

Detailed explanation-4: -After replacing the lost necklace with a new one, they had to replay all the money that they had borrowed to buy the new necklace. They sent away the maid and changed their lodgings. They rented some rooms in an attic. Matilda learnt the odious work of a kitchen.

Detailed explanation-5: -Solution : One big mistake changed the very course of Matilda’s and her husband’s lives. They unnecessarily spent their whole savings of 18000 francs left by his father. They had to borrow the rest of the money. And just imagine that 36000 francs was lost to replace a false necklace!