Extreme desire for lavish items leads to unhappiness and loss of peace of mind. Elucidate the statement with reference to the story’ The Necklace’.
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1. Loomings. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-tiever mind how long precisely-having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me oin shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way 1 have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul: whenever I find myself involantarily pausing before colfin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principke to prevent me fom deliberately stepping into the street, and thethodically knocking people's hats off-then. I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball, With a philosaphical flourish Cate throws himself upon his swond: Iquietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towands the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs commerce sarrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. ts extreme downtown is the hatery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previons were out of sight of land. Look ut the crowds of water-gazers there. Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbaih afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, nonhward. What do you seePosted like silent sentinels all around the town. stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the balwarks of ships from China; Some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seawand peep. But these are all landsmen: of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, elinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they do here? But look! Here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly hound for a dive. Strange! Nothing witl content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice. No. Thiey must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand-miles of them-leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues-north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virnue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
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In the story 'The Necklace', Madame Loisel was beautiful and therefore considered her situation, being in a family of clerks, beneath her. She wanted all the luxuries of life and her modest lifestyle left her daydreaming about fine dining, parties, and lavish dresses.
- When her husband one day came with an invite to an elite party she cried in distress and when her husband asked her why she mentioned how she had no clothes or jewels to wear to it.
- He then gave her money to buy a dress and then she borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend. Her efforts were not in vain as she was the belle of the ball and when she came back, she realized she had lost the necklace. She and her husband then tried to replace the diamond and had to pay 34 thousand francs which led them to live a poor lifestyle and
- Madame Loisel, going through such hardships, lost her grace and beauty. When she talked about this to her friend after five years, her friend reveals that they didn't need to do all that as the necklace was one 500 francs at most. This explains to us how the desire for lavish items leads to unhappiness and loss of peace of mind.
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