Close Company, Stories of Mothers and Daughters, A Visit From the Footbinder

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…she wishes to continue her comfortable life. She must suffer the pain of bound feet in order to live in a life of luxury. She really has no choice, for she is of the upper class. Only the lower classes in which women have to work are feet left unbound. These were the ways of time in which this young girl lived. Society can be harsh, and in this case the victims were the women.