Scene 5
Narrator: The next day, she went to her friend, Madame Forestier, to tell her about her trouble.
(Madame Forestier sits, reading her book)
Madame Mathilde: (knocks the door)
Madame Forestier! Madame Forestier
Madame Forestier: (looks up from the book)
Mathilde? I'm coming, Mathilde! (stands up goes to the door and opens it)
Madame Mathilde: Bon jour, Madame!
Madame Forestier: (gasps)
Bon jour, Mathilde! Come inside, dearie. Please have a seat.
(Mathilde sits)
What can I do for you?
Do you want some café au lait?
Madame Mathilde:
Thank you, madame, but no. Um, I'm here to talk this over.
You see, I've received a letter from the Minister of Education.
I've bought this dress to wear in the occasion.
And I came here to borrow some jewelry from you, since I have none.
Can you lend me some?
Madame Forestier:
Lend? Of course! Come, come, I'll show you.
(goes to her dressing table, gets a large box and opens it)
Choose, my dear.
(Madame Mathilde tries the jewelries in front of the mirror. Turns to Madame Forestier)
Madame Mathilde: Haven't you anything else?
Madame Forestier:
Oui. Look for yourself. I don't know what you like best.
(Mathilde sees a black satin case, picks it, opens and gasps at the diamond necklace.
Fastens the necklace around her neck and looks at the mirror.)
Mathilde: Awesome!
(turns to Madame Forestier)
Can you lend me this one?
Madame Forestier: Of course, Mathilde!
Madame Mathilde:
Oh, thank you, Madame!
(embraces Madame Forestier)
(Both go to the door.)
Madame Mathilde:
So Madame, thank you for letting me borrowthis necklace. Au revoir, Madame Forestier.
Madame Forestier: Au revoir, Mathilde.
(Mathilde exits. Madame Forestier closes the door)
(curtains close)
Scene 6
Narrator: The day of the party arrives, Madame Mathilde was a success. She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling and quite above herself with happiness. With her husband they arrive at the ball.
(Men and women talking, and waitresses rushing with their trays.
Monsieur and Madame Loiselenterin best dress.)
(curtains open)
Announcer: Monsieur and Madame Loisel!
(Upon announcing her name Madame Mathilde proudly looks at the men and women who are staring at her.)
(Upon arriving at the hall Madame Mathilde separates herself and goes to a company of women leaving her husband with no choice but also to go to the company of men)
Madame Mathilde: (bows her head) Bon jour, Madame de Winter!
Madame de Winter: (bows her head) Bon jour, Madame Mathilde!
What a beautiful dress of yours!
Madam de Bosse: And.... you look so stunning!
Madame Mathilde:
Thank you! You know what my dress comes from the finest and expensive cloth of our country! (heads up and smiled gracefully)
Madame deWinter: (amaze) Oh! I see.
Announcer:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Minister of Education and Madame Ramponneau.
(All men and women stop talking, all eyes set upon the two couples who are the host of the extravagant event, and then they clap at the arrival of the Minister of Education and Madame Ramponneau)
Minister of Education:
Bon jour, guests. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the ball!
(Looks at Madame Mathilde. He was amazed by her looks. Then proceed to the hall.)
Announcer: The dance will begin.
Narrator:
As the dance begins, Madame Mathilde is so very happy that for once her dreams were nearly come to real. She dances madly and ecstatically.
She drunk with pleasure, with no thought of anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of the desire of her feminine heart.
(curtains close)
YOU ARE READING
The Necklace (SCRIPTED)
Short StoryWanting to be rich and famous is not bad, but what happened to Mathilde is that her want for rich and fame changed her attitude and turned her into a worst person that her husband suffered everything he has just to satisfy her.
