The Necklace

The Necklace

''it brought them to their door in the martyrs, and sadly they walked up to their own apartment.

why does the author set the couples apartment on rue des martyrs (translated, street of matyrs)?

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The setting is an allusion.... it is also an example of irony, as the Loisel's become martyrs in sacrificing their lives to working to pay for a necklace that wasn't even real.

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