Old Man Tall
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As one of Balzac's best works, "Petro Goriot" is representative in showing the breadth and depth of social life. The novel is set in Paris in the early 19th century and describes two parallel and intersecting stories: Goriot, a retired noodle seller, was neglected by his two daughters and tragically died in the attic of the "House of Vaguer"; young Rastignac embarked on a path of depravity under the corruption of Parisian society. Through the two constantly alternating stages of a shabby apartment and a luxurious aristocratic salon, the writer paints pictures of the materialistic society in Paris, exposing the moral decay and callousness of people under the control of money, and revealing the end of the aristocracy during the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.
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