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This quotation describes Félicité’s reaction to Madame Aubain’s death, and highlights the way in which Félicité has both rejected and internalized social expectations of “servants” and “masters” that have been defined by the French class system. Though Madame Aubain is older than Félicité, Félicité considers the fact that Madame Aubain died first “unacceptable and unreal.” Though it makes logical sense that Madame Aubain would die before Félicité (she is older, after all), Félicité has been raised to believe that, because she is a poor domestic servant, her life is not as significant as Madame Aubain’s; therefore, she thinks that it…