The quote I picked was “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature” by Henry James and this quote is embodied in “The Necklace,” story because if we didn’t know the backup information such as the timeline of when this story was taking place or how the two main characters got to be in a relationship and how the main character preferred everything to be high class then the story would not make any since, but because we had the history behind the characters and the setting it made it easier to understand it, and even though the story is generally pretty short, it still required a great deal of back up details (history) in order for it to run smoothly and allow the reader to better understand the message.