After her recovery Emma encountered Leon in Rouen and began to carry on an affair with him. When he abandoned her, she became seriously ill. None of Bovary's efforts to please her were successful, and she did not value or understand his devoted love for her.įinally Emma had an adulterous affair with Rodolphe, a local landowner. She was negligent of her duties as a wife and mother.
After Leon left the town in order to attend law school, Emma's boredom and frustration became more intense. Emma's unhappiness continued, and she began to have romantic yearnings toward Leon, a young law clerk. As a result of her dissatisfaction she became ill.įor the sake of her health the Bovarys moved to a new town, where their daughter was born. For a while Emma was excited and pleased by her marriage, but because of her superficial romantic ideals she was soon bored and disillusioned by her new life.
Upon his wife's death, Bovary married an attractive young woman named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. He made a marriage of convenience with a woman older than himself. Charles Bovary, the only son of a middle-class family, became a doctor and set up his practice in a rural village.
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