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13. Why doesn’t Mathilde wait for her husband to go get a cab?
14. How does Mathilde react to the loss of the necklace?
15. How does she handle her predicament? Do you think this is the best way of handling it? What would you have done?
16. When Mme. Forestier reveals that the necklace was a fake, the reader feels the force of the irony. Explain why her revelation is ironic.
17. What is so ironic about Mathilde at the beginning of the story and Mathilde 10 years after the event?
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