This is a one-act play, which is based on Maupassant’s best-known story The Diamond Necklace.
There are three characters in the play:
Mathilde Loisel, a young woman;
Pierre Loisel, Mathilde’s husband, a government worker;
Jeanne, Mathilde's good friend.
中文介紹：
女主人公是一個(gè)小公務(wù)員的妻子.一次,接受了部長(zhǎng)舉辦的晚會(huì)的邀請(qǐng).羅瓦賽爾太太由于虛榮心作祟,向一個(gè)貴婦人借了一條項(xiàng)鏈.后來(lái)這條項(xiàng)鏈不慎在舞會(huì)上丟失,羅瓦賽爾太太為了賠給朋友一模一樣的項(xiàng)鏈,落入高利貸的陷阱,就此開(kāi)始了艱辛的生活,葬送了十年的青春.最后,當(dāng)她在還清欠款后,偶遇那位貴婦人時(shí),婦人卻告訴她那條項(xiàng)鏈其實(shí)是假的.
英文介紹：The story takes place in Paris. One day, Pierre gets an invitation to a palace ball. He thinks it important to him, and decides to go to the party with his wife Mathilde. But Mathilde is worried, because she has no new dress and no jewellwey to wear. Her husband spends 400 francs on a new dress and she herself borrows a diamond necklace from her good friend Jeanne. The young couple go to the ball and has a very good time here. On their way back after the ball, Mathilde finds that the necklace is no longer around her neck. They rush back to the palace and look for it. But they can’t find it; it is lost.The young couple borrow a great deal of money and buy a necklace that is exactly like Jeanne’s. It costs them 36000 francs. So they have to work day and night to pay back the money they have borrowed. After ten years of hard work, they at last pay back all the money, but now Mathilde looks so old that Jeanne even can’t recognize her when they meet.When Jeanne hears the story, she tells Mathilde that the necklace she has borrowed isn’t a real diamond necklace. It isn’t valuable at all. It is worth 500 francs at the most.