I would classify the overall conflict as character vs. society, because Mathilde’s issue is that she is not wealthy. She wants to be upper class. She wants to be what she feels she was born to be. She has an innate feeling that she was designed to be better than she is. She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no...
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