The character of Madame Bovary consists of many different components. At first Emma Bovary seems content and unassuming. She doesn’t question anything done, and is very easy to please. As the first nine chapters progress, Emma grows uneasy and upset. She stops taking care of her house and home, leaving her husband to wonder what the problem is. After she witnesses the lavish lifestyle that is completely different from her own, in anger, Madame Bovary loses all love and respect for herself, her husband, her home, and slowly descends into a deep depression.

When Monsieur Bovary first met Emma Rouault she was living and taking care of her sick father in Les Bertaux. She loved her father and worked hard to take care of him and their house. Emma Rouault also had a confidence about herself, “ . . . she had an open gaze that met yours with fearless candor” (Flaubert, 858). This openness attracted the then married Monsieur Bovary. He had never encountered a woman like her before, and he spent time with her even after he was done taking care of her father, “ . . . he went back the very next day, then t

wice a week regularly, not to mention unscheduled calls he made from time to time, as though by chance” (859). After Monsieur Bovary’ wife dies, he takes Emma as his wife and she moves with him to Tostes.

Madame Bovary the character is both simple and yet very complex. She is simple when it comes to her needs. She has wants that most women in marriages have, to be loved, to be cherished, and most of all not to be taken for granted. She is complex, though, when it comes to expressing her needs. Instead of stating when she is upset, she plays the common role of wives by suppressing all feelings in the hopes that someone could read her mind. She gets angry when no one knows what she wants, and then gets angrier when she has to tell someone. She leaves those around her confused and angry because they have the feeling that she can simply not be pleased. This type of passive aggressive communication can lead to a very unfulfilling life as shown in the novel.

c. She prays for something to happen.

III. Madame Bovary’s grows discontent.

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