Madame Bovary begins with a young Charles Bovary starting a new school where he struggles to fit in. Ridiculed by his classmates, Charles grows into a mediocre, dull adult.
Charles’ tough start
He first fails a medical exam but passes the second one to become a second-rate country doctor. His mother marries him off to a widow who dies soon afterward, leaving Charles much less money than he expected.
Charles then falls in love with a patient’s daughter named Emma and the two are married before Charles sets up his own dental practice. Emma had dreamed that marriage would be the solution to all of her problems as a young woman, but this is not the case and she immediately begins to dream of a more sophisticated life.
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