In Alain-Fournier's novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, several key characters played intricate roles within the development of the novel. The two main characters, Meaulnes and Seurel, pass a majority of their time through reliving Meaulnes' adventure he had one day. The two males try to live their lives according to the adventure and the risks that were taken, as well as trying to relate the adventure to other children who had no basis for comparison, which proved to be a very difficult task. One character, Yvonne de Galais, played a very intricate role in the procession of the plot. Yvonne's role was multi-faceted. She played the sought after woman that Meaulnes had met, and she was also a reason for living and trying to escape the town in which the to boys had lived. Yvonne was also a fantasy. Meaulnes had known her for a very short time, but as a young boy he imagined himself being with her for the rest of his life and trying to find her proved to be a difficult task, even f!
             To answer on of the questions at hand, Yvonne de Galais' is a tragic pawn in a male fantasy of romantic self-fulfillment. Meaulnes, the day he was at the estate of Yvonne, spent what to him seemed like an eternity with her, when in actuality it was only a few moments. Meaulnes had high hopes with this girl. When you meet someone, and you want to be with them, you notice little things about the person that nobody else knows. While they were on the boat, Meaulnes noticed that when she would answer her neighbors' questions, she would bite her lip, but her "blue eyes would rest on her gently."(p.64) Once Meaulnes had the chance to speak to her; the first words out of his mouth were "You are beautiful."(p.64) This shows that he was paying her compliments just to show how interested he was in her and how much he had hope that the two of them would see more of each other and be with each other. He also tried to get ...