This story tells the story of a small clerk and his wife. A chance to attend the royal ball greatly stimulated his wife's vanity. She forced her honest husband to buy her a gorgeous dance dress and borrowed expensive and beautiful jewelry from her best friend, including an expensive diamond necklace. With her beautiful appearance and gorgeous clothes, she became the most charming woman at the dance as she wished. When she got home, she was still immersed in happiness and joy. The next thing can be imagined: they searched again and again and were disappointed again and again. Finally, they had to borrow usury to buy the same diamond necklace in a jewelry store and give it back to their friends. Since then, her life has completely changed. She and her husband have to work day and night to repay the bitter fruit of this happy night. Finally, one day ten years later, she paid off her debts, but at this time she was no longer beautiful and completely became a edema.
This is really a black humor. When she paid off all her debts and was no longer tortured by vanity, she lost the best time of her life. It is vanity to make her feel ugly without gorgeous appearance. It was vanity that made her suffer for ten years. But what did vanity give her? The scenery that night? Happiness? Or long-term happiness? No, vanity didn't give her anything, but it ruined her happy future and quiet life. What a terrible vanity, but so easily sneaked into our hearts. And what was her inner world like when she knew that the necklace was just a fake?
This figure is just a small microcosm. There are many vain people in this society, who are performing this tragicomedy of life repeatedly at different times, different places and different occasions. Grasp the real you! Vanity is just a bubble, stepping on it will not only be empty, but also hurt yourself!