What is the future of Gervaise as an alone woman with two kids?

Gervaise Macquart is the protagonist of the novel. She is a rather reasonable woman, at least at the beginning. Gervaise is sure that working is the only way to have everything a person might require to live peacefully and be fairly well off. She is hard working and responsible, she manages even to open her own laundry and her affairs seem to be good enough. But with the flow of time, and under influence of her husband and other relatives and co-called friends Gervaise loses everything. She ends in complete poverty, and dies under the stairs. Her addiction to gluttony and later to alcohol are the reasons for her fall.

This short character analysis describes Gervaise and her circumstances. You question calls for your opinion.