When her son becomes an adult, she is grasping and domineering and tries to run his life for him. In order to compensate for the unhappiness of her marriage, she has been an overly protective and indulgent mother. He represents the ignorance and inadequacies of the rural clergy in Flaubert's time and serves as an effective counterpoint to Homais. He has no understanding of the real needs of his parishioners. He accepts and defends all the dogmatic and outmoded aspects of official church thought and never dares to question anything. He is a good-natured and simple man but utterly lacking in intelligence, perception, or sophistication. He has been interpreted as a symbol of either Death or the Devil.īerthe The daughter of Charles and Emma Bovary.īournisien The priest at Yonville. His ugly appearance and ghastly song horrify her whenever they meet. The Blind Beggar A hideously deformed creature whom Emma encounters several times on the road between Rouen and Yonville, and who passes beneath her window when she is dying. Marquis d'Andervilliers A nobleman who invites the Bovarys to a ball at La Vaubyessard, his chateau. Leon Emma's early friend and later her second lover. Rodolphe Emma's first lover, a shrewd bachelor who lives on his estate near Yonville. He lacks intelligence and imagination he is naive and unaggressive and has the most conventional and mundane interests.Įmma Bovary She is portrayed as an irresponsible, immature, and neurotic woman who is unable to adjust to the realities of her life.
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