vanity

It was a bleak evening at the Crawley mansion in Vanity Fair. Satisfying her curiosity, Rebecca Sharp revealed to the unwelcome guest, Sir Pitt, a letter she had stumbled upon. The letter was addressed to Rawdon Crawley, Rebecca's beloved husband, from an unheard-of admirer. Inviting Sir Pitt into the antiquated drawing room, Rebecca handed over the envelope, her heart sinking with the weight of a terrible truth.

In the heart of Paris, enveloped in the rigid structures of boarding houses and societal obligations, an old man named Pere Goriot was quietly fading away. Goriot, previously a well-to-do vermicelli manufacturer had squandered his wealth, investing every bit of it into the lives of his two daughters, Anastasie and Delphine.