Come ON Neatharu there's definitely room for metaphor here;
Pearls have historically been a symbol of purity and virginity, I think that the breaking of the necklace definitely speaks to a loss of innocence, a loss of metaphorical virginity, etc. The girls head to a club, a place where sex is implicitly solicited, and even if nothing really happens and the narrator regrets the whole night, there's a sense of the irrevocability of the experience. The mom is crying because she senses this loss, not because of the pearls... which is why the girl can't seem to console her. She doesn't feel different, but still feels bad for breaking the necklace.
I think it's supposed to function on a literal and metaphorical level... it's just a real experience that has a lot of metaphorical undertones. I don't know
Come ON Neatharu there's definitely room for metaphor here;
Pearls have historically been a symbol of purity and virginity, I think that the breaking of the necklace definitely speaks to a loss of innocence, a loss of metaphorical virginity, etc. The girls head to a club, a place where sex is implicitly solicited, and even if nothing really happens and the narrator regrets the whole night, there's a sense of the irrevocability of the experience. The mom is crying because she senses this loss, not because of the pearls... which is why the girl can't seem to console her. She doesn't feel different, but still feels bad for breaking the necklace.
I think it's supposed to function on a literal and metaphorical level... it's just a real experience that has a lot of metaphorical undertones. I don't know