b) “Very well. I will give you four hundred francs. And try to have a pretty gown.”
Explanation:
From the beginning of the novel, we can see that Madame Loisel was unhappy due to her desire to be wealthy, and the husband does everything within his power to satisfy his wife. The husband went as far as falling into debt just to satisfy the wife but she is just the type that is never satisfied with anything.
So, the husband saying “Very well. I will give you four hundred francs. And try to have a pretty gown.” was just to pleased her and it summarize how much the husband love his wife.
Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.
