'The Necklace' is a French story written in 1884 by Guy de Maupassant. The story follows Madame Mathilde and her husband. Mathilde believed that she would one day have a high social position in life. She was just an ordinary woman with extraordinary and unrealistic desires. Her husband was a good man and loved her. He tried to give her everything he could to make her happy. But does money or things make people happy? The moral lesson of the story is that we should not judge people by appearances because they might appear to be rich and successful but it could be just a façade. It also teaches us that we should not pine after material possessions and appreciate what we have.