This short story starts by describing the “eyes of Paris”. It has illustrated the fact that people in France are becoming more and more materialistic. The salesmen find every way to solicit customers to buy things. They persuade them in an ingratiating manner with clever talk. They know their customers well, making them caught in the commercial trap willingly. This story is an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. His short stories have profound significance on social criticism. He criticizes the social injustice and the dark side. Balzac has long since realized the supremacy of money in capitalist society. In his short stories, the might of money is fully shown.

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 —18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. He is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comidie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. His masterpieces: Eugenie Grandet and Father Goriot.

Along with Flaubert, Balzac is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction.