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Through actions, thoughts, and feelings, the character is revealed as a woman yearning for a higher social status while struggling with her current circumstances. She dreams of elegant events and luxurious possessions but expresses scorn and unhappiness at her reality. The narrator paints a poignant picture of her internal conflict.
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How are characters revealed? Description by the narrator Dialogue Actions Thoughts Feelings
She dressed plainly because she could not afford find clothes, but was as unhappy as a woman who has come down in the world; for women have no family rank of social class.
…she would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest
Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she scornfully tossed the invitation on the table, murmuring, “What good is that to me?”