To Lie or Not to Lie ... that is question posed in Guy De Maupassant's short story, The Necklace . Mathilde, is a "pretty and charming" girl whom, according to herself, was born in the wrong class-- she is meant to be rich; she was supposed to be born with all the delicacies and all the luxuries. But " as though she had really fallen from her proper station", she suffers in her own poverty. Mathilde is married to a "little" clerk. He does his best to give her what he can, but even in his best efforts it does not please her. Mathilde's husband fought to obtain an invitation, for his wife and himself, to a ball where only the most prestigious, and highly classed people attend. At the presentation of this invitation, Mathilde becomes irritated with her ...