The first six paragraphs of the story give quite a bit of description about Madame Loisel and her life. What details are given about the setting?

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She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains.

The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind.

When she sat down for dinner at the round table covered with a three-days-old cloth....