Since Madame Loisel's attendance at the ball held at the Ministerial Mansion dazzles the male guests for reasons that are not substantive, it seems that she only appears extraordinary, as her subsequent actions prove. As in many of his stories, Guy de Maupassant exposes the pettiness and superficiality of the residents of northwestern France through the character of Mathilde Loisel. She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born...
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