Father Goriot

“Father Goriot is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Honoré·de Balzac in the 19th century. The two main characters in this book are the retired flour merchant Father Goriot and the university man Eugene Rastignac. The retired flour merchant Goriot devoted all his life to his two daughters. He married them to the two dukes with a huge dowry so that they entered the upper-class society. However, two daughters abandoned him unexpectedly. The two daughters only regarded their father as a cash cow by asking for money from his father again and again, and gradually drained the last drop of blood in their father’s body. After the two daughters’ affairs were discovered by their husbands, they quarreled in front of Goriot for money, so that he was struck with anger and died tragically a few days later. Until Goriot was dying, his daughters did not come to see him, but were busy attending a large-scale dance party of the upper class.”