Answer:
The correct answer is: because she feels she deserved to marry a man above her class.
Step-by-step explanation:
This story is sat in Paris, France sometime in the mid-1800s. It describes a woman called Mathilde, who is unhappy with her material status and she dreams of being rich.
One day, she receives an invitation for a ball and she becomes upset because she doesn't have a proper dress to wear. However, her husband decides to buy her a dress and spends all his savings, just to make her happy.
Mathilde doesn't appreciate what her husband did for her and she considers that she deserved to marry a man above her class.