Madame Bovary
In Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert pays close attention to minute details while downplaying what the reader would expect to be the major events in the book. ... In contrast, at the end of chapter four in part one, he ends it with, “When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant,” (Flaubert, 2). ... After Emma commits suicide, Charles Bovary insists on having Emma buried in her wedding dress. ... At this point, Charles Bovary is in extreme debt from Emma’s financial escapades, however, he still insists on having a grand funeral for her. ... At the crash of the glass Madame Bovary turned her head and saw in the garden the faces of peasants pressed against the window looking in at them. ... Another object used as a symbolic device in Madame Bovary are flowers. ... Flaubert uses intense detail to describe the flowers and the fire and he ends the chapter with the simple line of: “When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant,” (Flaubert, p. ... Gustave Flaubert makes Madame Bovary an interesting book by paying close attention to seemingly small details and loading them with symbolism. ... Even Emma Bovary herself is used as an object thus loosing her identity and self respect by reducing herself to merely being a body.