The story is about a man of modest means who is madly in love with his beautiful wife, who has love for two things, the theater and false jewelry, After his wife past away from pneumonia he discovers that the jewels are not really false at all.At the end of this story he remarried and He is sure of his beloved wife's fidelity and virtue, but he is completely miserable because she has a violent temper. He was happier with a woman who was unfaithful and dishonest, although he didn't know it, just as he didn't know that her false gemstones were actually the real thing. Finding what he thought would make him happy, he actually had a worse life. This story was full of surprises and called Monsieur to loose everything after his wife passed away. One day as he was starving of hunger he decided to take the false gems to a jewelry place to see if he could get a little money off of it but then he discovered that the jewelry were real and not fake. The jewelry were actually very expansive and were sent to his wife by mail. He discovered she cheated on him during their marriage. At the end he sold all his wife's jewelry and becomes very rich. He left his job and remarried at the end but becomes very unhappy.
The Jewels