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Final-timed Writing

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Adam Zhang

June 21, 2007

Timed-writing Three

Directions: From The Necklace, what might have been the quality of Mme Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace? Is her life better or worse now?

Lying easeful in a chair in the sunshine, having a cup of coffee sometime, reading newspapers relaxed for killing time, Mme Loisel is enjoying her present life in her home now. When it comes to the dinner time, she works in the kitchen preparing meal for the whole family, waiting for her husband and children’s coming back. When the time of cleaning approaches, she undertakes a lot of tasks—washing clothes, cleaning the floor, etc—without any complaint. After engaged in such tough tasks in her home, she think, “Maybe it is the time for community meeting now.” So she goes out meet other members in her community. What’s also possible is that Mme Loisel has  registered in an club for keeping fit or practicing yoga.

    These would all come true if Mme Loisel hadn’t lost her friend fake necklace—although she found it was fake later on—because she could spend these struggling years working leisurely, just for communicating with people else in the society, and secondly making money to support the family. She would choose a job to enjoy her life, not a job in which she seeks eagerly for money. She desired eagerly for money to compensate the “valuable” necklace to eliminate her guilt, not taking any idea of keeping health into consideration. Therefore she got haggard with her skins coarse through the long term of years of overworking. In the end, she got the ease in her mind because she succeeded compensating the lost necklace, but paying her beauty and health.

    In the western countries, there are two main sections of working people—white collar and blue collar. The white collar class bear a higher reputation in the society although they earn less money, while the blue collar workers enjoy a high level of salary but pay more physical strength. So it is with Mme Loisel in my opinion. She paid a lot of labor strength as a blue collar which made her more tired, got her exhausted although she had made sizable money. Supposing she hadn’t lost that cursed necklace, she could absolutely use these money to make her life and the whole family’s life better. From this aspect, the imagined life of hers in the beginning may come true.

     From the conjecture and analysis above, we can see that if Mme Loisel had not lost the necklace, she would enjoy a better life, exactly speaking a much better life.