Which statement best analyzes the role this event plays in The Necklace plot?

“Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste! It was worth at most only five hundred francs!”



It leads to the resolution where Mathilde learns (a little too late) a lesson about the downfall that can come from vanity and greed.


It is the climax of the story since the reader is most excited at this point.


It serves as a complicating incident because Mathilde will have to suffer the consequences of her actions.


It serves as the falling action because it shows that Mathilde will have to get used to her place in life.