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Read & copy
“A person can’t have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.”
Meaning & context
The narrator closes with dry irony after Nathalie secures the wealthy marriage she wanted but loses the romantic attention she also expected to keep.
Source details
“The Kiss,” 1895, represented by Wikisource. This is ironic narrator commentary on Nathalie’s calculated choices and disappointment; it is literary satire about desire, money and relationships rather than prescriptive relationship advice.