The novel begins with Charles Bovary as a young trying to fit in a new school. Charles's parents, especially his mother wanted him to go to medical school, before he finished upper school (Flaughbert 1092). Charles eventually finishes his medical exam after taking it twice. Charles's mother then helped him decide where to practice, at Tostes. However, her mission of intervening and making decisions in Charles's life was not accomplished yet because she did not feel she had done enough for her son. So, she found him a rich, middle-aged widow. "Ugly though she was, and thin as a lath, with a face as spotted as a meadow in springtime, Madame Dubuc" became Charles's wife (Flaubert 1094). Charles thought that marriage would bring him freedom to make his own decisions. However, he was wrong. Heloise was a hypochondriac and always complaining of ailments.
             Charles met Emma, the daughter of one of his patients, and secretly falls in love with her. He visits Emma's father, more frequently than necessary so he can see Emma. Heloise put a stop to Charles's visits to Emma, he "yielded, but the strength of his desire" to visit Emma "kept protesting against the serfvility of his behavior" (Flaubert 1098).
             One day Charles finds out that Heloise's fortune was never true. Heloise is distraught and soon after this unexpectedly died. Not long after Heloise's death, Charles married Emma.. Emma "tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words 'bliss,' 'passion,' and 'rapture' – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books" (Flaubert 1108). She soon realized however, that marriage did not live up to her romantic expectations. Charles was not like the man she read about in romance novels; he was dull and mediocre. Emma became bored and depressed, which eventually made her ill. After she becomes preg...