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Like baking flour. They're saying that flour, the most basic and tasteless ingredient has more personality than the male leads in this novel, lmao.
Tho, they're written to be that way. Imo, they're trying to show how poorly women were treated in that century, as well as the common folk. The privilege men and Nobel's would have and how they'd abuse it. Also probably written by someone who's a socialist, but who knows. :3
The real question is: who tf wrote the novel and made the leads so shitty???? Flour has a better personality than the leads