"he mortgaged the whole remaining years of his existence, risked his signature without even knowing if he could honor it, and appalled at the agonizing face of the future, at the black misery about to fall upon him, at the prospect of every possible physical privation and moral torture, he went to get the new necklace and put down upon the jeweler's counter thirty-six thousand francs." how does the author's use of the word privation contribute to the story, "the necklace"? a. it foreshadows the loisels extreme poverty as a result of replacing the necklace. b. it shows that the loisels were very private about their circumstances. c. it tells the reader that because of their debt, the loisels ended up homeless. d. it increased the reader's awareness of the loisel's dire situation.