Find passages from Chapter 8 (or elsewhere) that reveal the significance/symbolic value of the ball.
Top of page 49: "some of the details faded but the wistful feeling remained with her." "Her heart resembled them: in its context with wealth, something had rubbed off on it that could not be removed."
The ball represents the life that she wished she had lived. Before, in the story, she talked about the lives she read about in books while she was in school. She wished for a life like that. However, living with Charles did not provide that excitement. She dealt with it for a while until the ball. Once she went to the ball, she knew that her life with Charles would not be good enough. She had experience what she wanted, and she would never be able to take anything less. I would predict that in the future, she will try to make her life more like the peoples' at the ball. Whether this means changing Charles or trying to leave him, she will not be able to settle for a lesser life.
End of page 32-33
This shows what she read and how she wanted a life like that. This happened way before the ball but is exactly what she wants. Her longing for a fairy tale life is rooted in her readings as a young child.
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