The Necklace

What is ironic about the Loisels’ poverty

1 The Loisels are impoverished by someone they considered a friend

2 It is Madame Loisel who lost the necklace and her husband who is paying for all of it

3 The harder they work the more they have to pay off

4 Madame Loisel felt like her old life was not good enough for her and now she lost it all.

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What is ironic about the Loisels’ poverty?

The irony is that Loisel was not born into a life of poverty. She was middle class until she tried to pretend she was of the upper class. Her hubris and her fantasies caused her slide into poverty.

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