From “My Landlady" by Guy De Maupassant

When my father had made up his mind that I
should go to Paris to continue my law studies,
there had been a long discussion about
settling everything. ...

Some of our neighbors told us of a certain
Mme.' Kergaran, a native of Brittany, 2 who
took in boarders, and so my father arranged
matters by letter with this respectable person,
at whose house I and my luggage arrived one
evening.

On page 1 of the story, how do the first two paragraphs function in the overall structure of the text?

as a foreshadowing for the way the landlady will behave

as an introduction for the narrator's main conflict

as an approach that reveals the narrator's key motivations

as a backstory that explains events before the current plot