She never actually loved that man, as the professor said, she only loved the romantics who fell in love with her college professor. And the Romantics of the girls' middle class is built on a stable material life. For them, a little innocence and betrayal, a gift, and a candlelight party are enough. And this man started to frighten her.
It's not really a moral judgment, it's just an intuition, a survival intuition. They all know that at that moment, they all understand that their "love" for each other is not enough to overcome the fear of survival.
From swings of nothingness and anxiety to fear of survival: this man. From anxiety to fear, back to a stable but nihilistic life, she continues the meaning of middle-class existence.
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