The main meaning of this story is greed, which destroys people and changes their lives for the worse. Greedy people will never achieve their goals. Such people want to achieve everything without work, without effort. Such people are mostly lazy and aimless. In this story, the woman wanted to have more. Her surroundings and way of life seemed poor, meaningless, and uninteresting to her. But one day her husband, who was a very ordinary man and did not have much money, bought an expensive ball ticket for her. The woman did not appreciate his torment, she started crying and said that she did not have a suitable dress. The husband also paid for the dress. But that was not enough for the woman either. She also wanted an expensive necklace. The husband offered to take it from her friend. The woman asked her friend to lend her a necklace. She chose the most beautiful and luxurious necklace from all the jewellery. The woman looked very beautiful at the ball and was different from everyone else. But when they returned home, the woman noticed that she had lost her necklace. They were very disappointed and didn’t have enough money to buy a new one. They started taking bills, borrowing money from people so that they could buy another necklace like that. Finally, they bought the necklace and returned it. But they had to work to pay all the bills. It took ten difficult years to pay all the taxes. One day the woman heard that the necklace, which she had borrowed was a copy and it was very cheap. It turns out that they had suffered in vain for so many years. In my opinion, this story was a great lesson for the woman, which proved that her greed ruined her and her husband’s life. There are many sayings summing up this story, but this is the closest one “As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.”
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