In Madame Bovary, Flaubert pays close attention to minute details such as Emma's wedding dress, windows, cigar case, and flowers. For example, Flaubert spends almost an entire chapter describing ... cake and the feast that followed. In contrast with, at the end of chapter four, he ends it with, "When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant." Emma's pregnancy is not mentioned again after several chapters. One might think that Emma's pregnancy would be a major event in the book, but Flaubert doesn't ... world she will never experience. In a way the cigar box is all ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her stories including "extramarital romance and interracial marriage, which gave the young girl an unusually complex view of the world."" Critics compared the novel to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Willa Cather "complained that Edna Pontellier and Emma Bovary both belong to a class, not large, but forever glamoring in our ears, that demands more romance out of life than God puts into it."" Edna ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School