She felt that this surgery would raise their status because Charles would become a well known doctor. .
Emma's single attempt to resolve her unhappiness from her marriage was to engage herself in adulterous affairs. While with her lovers, she was able to experience love and joyous feelings which she had always longed for. "I have a lover! I have a lover!" At last she was going to possess the joys of love, that fever of happiness she had been despaired of ever knowing"(140). The beginnings of these affairs were filled with lust, strong emotions and unreasonable dreams. Emma would quickly attach herself to these men and confess the feelings that she could not express with Charles. "It's because I love you. I love you so much I cant do without you"(164). Although it seemed as though these feelings were real and would last forever, they too bored her and began to fade at times. This occurred at one point in Emma's affair with Leon when they both were becoming bored with one another because they felt as though they knew each other too well. "She was beginning to find in adultery all the dullness of marriage" but how could she being herself to give it up?"(251). Despite the fact that her lovers were unable to fully please her, she still needed them in her life. She used them as an escape from the reality of her unhappy life. By believing that she has successfully committed adultery, she created thrills along with stress in her life. .
The relationship between Monsieur and Madame Bovary was completely unbalanced. Charles was so in love with Emma and was willing to do anything for her. Emma on the other hand was not in love but remained married simple to enable her to have complete access of Charles's money and other benefits from their marriage. Immediately following their wedding day, Emma was already spending money on unnecessary things for the home. "She spent the first 2 days planning changes in the house.