![]() ![]() When he demands repayment, neither of her lovers will help and she cannot face the truth coming out. To pay the cost of the coach fares, the hotel room, smart clothes to go to town and gifts to Léon, together with extravagant furnishings, she runs up debts with the conniving shopkeeper Lheureux. Under the pretence of having piano lessons, she takes the regular coach to Rouen and meets him in a hotel. ![]() She is in despair, until she discovers that Léon has found a job in the city of Rouen nearby. Léon, disappointed by her rejection, leaves to study in Paris, leaving her without congenial company.Īfter encountering her, the womanising landowner Rodolphe decides he would like an affair with her and, under the pretence of offering riding lessons, finds her more than willing.Īfter four years, she demands that they run away together and, after he agrees, buys travelling clothes and luggage on credit instead he writes her a farewell letter and leaves town. The parish priest is a poor listener and does not respond to her unhappiness. His attentions to her cause adverse comment and eventually prompt her to instead become more attentive to her husband and baby, but this leads her to become dissatisfied yet again. There she meets the law clerk Léon, with whom she can talk about art, literature, poetry and music. Following an aristocratic ball she is more dissatisfied than ever and her husband, noticing this, moves to a larger town with potentially greater diversions, where he is befriended by the apothecary. Charles Bovary is kindly and conscientious, but lacks assertiveness and is a dull conversationalist. ![]() Facing spinsterhood on her widowed father's farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful in attracting and contracting a marriage with the local doctor, whose wife has recently died. ![]()
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