“The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, is set in old-age France and is about a middle-class woman who is very greedy and ambitious and has a desire to get into the upper-class society through her husband who is a government clerk and her rich friend but ends up destroying her life in vain. Throughout the story, the diamond necklace, the centerpiece of the story, is shown by the author to symbolize and represent many themes, such as wealth and high social status along with the idea that ambition can lead to doom and most importantly, the idea that appearances can be deceiving.