... daughter, Emma, getting married. Monsieur Rouault "noticed that Charles tended to be flushed around his daughter's presencev/s meaning that one of these days he would ask for her hand" (Flaubert 864), and the narrator goes on to say that "Charles was a bit namby-pamby, not his dream of a son-in-law, but... he probably wouldnt haggle too much over the dowry ... " (864). In these quotes, free indirect discourse allows a third-person narrative to exploit a first-person point of view. The feelings expressed are those of the Monsieur Rouault, even though the narrator ... ...

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