Flowers for Algernon and The Necklace were the things that the main characters possess really valuable?

those 2 short stories had similarities between their Ironies and parallelism between the main characters, Charlie Gordon and Madam Loisel... Charlie Gordon received intelligence from an experiment and later in the story, he discovers the Irony of it that of the experiment will eventually kill him,, he started out as a retard then a genius then a retard again just like Madam Loisel from the Necklace..she started out as a poor woman then rich then poor .. these were the things they had something in common BUT was the intelligence of Charlie Gordon and the necklace of Madam Loisel really valuable to them?

Flowers for Algernon and The Necklace were the things that the main characters possess really valuable?
If you dread and fear losing something, then it is valuable to you.


That doesn't necessarily mean it really is valuable or should be valued above other things, just that it's important to YOU in some way..
Reply:Wow, good question. Haven't read "The Necklace,", and it's been YEARS since I read "Flowers for Algernon", but from what my addled brain can remember, near the end of Charlie's stint with being a supergenius, one of the things he realized was that intellegence was not as precious as we might first assume; in fact, he began, if memory serves, to see it as a bit of a curse, and longed for the days that he didn't know any better; i.e., ignorance is bliss. What he discovered, once again calling memories from the DEEP recesses of my brain, at that the most valuable possession he had was his humanity...he remembered that he used to be "smart", but in his final state, it held little significance to him...