![]() ![]() Loisel generously agrees to give her 400 francs to buy a new dress, the exact amount he had been setting aside to purchase a rifle in order to go hunting with his friends on the plains of Nanterre. ![]() However, Mathilde initially refuses the invitation, complaining that she doesn’t have anything to wear. ![]() Loisel gets them invited to a party hosted by the Minister of Education. Because she is beautiful, Mathilde feels that she has been short-changed in life: she is dismayed by the shabbiness of her apartment and her humble maid, and she constantly dreams of luxurious apartments and lavish dinners to escape the pedestrian reality of her own daily existence. Loisel, a clerk who works for the Ministry of Education. Her family is unable to afford a dowry and so she is married to M. Mathilde Loisel is the pretty and charming daughter of a family of modest means. ![]()
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