A Simple Heart

How is Félicité introduced to the reader in the first chapter?

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Félicité is first introduced as the envy of all the good ladies in town. She can do a wide variety of things and seems always to do a good job. She is extremely hard working and pious, always rising at dawn to go to mass and then working without a break throughout the entire day. She sleeps sitting up with a rosary in her hand, which emphasizes the two dominant traits that we learn about her, namely that she is hardworking and religiously pious. She also doesn't waste things. We learn that she is particularly good at bargaining for low prices and that she makes a single 20 pound loaf of bread last her twelve days by eating slowly and gathering every crumb. She wears the same clothes in every season and generally lives an extremely regular and consistent life.