1. Literature quotes Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress

2. “I’m not like those young French girls Balzac talks about” She sees herself opposite to the characters in Balzac and that she’s just a simple mountain girl

3. “She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price” Balzac has educated her in way and made her realize that she could use her beauty to get ahead into the world.

4. “the lovely, unsophisticated mountain girl had vanished without a trace” Balzac as reeducated the Little Seamstress and transformed her from an “uncivilized” mountain girl to a “civilized girl”