Madame Bovary, Chapter 9: samenvatting

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1. Emma treasures the cigar case, studies Paris through maps and reading, and imagines luxury as the setting for love.
2. She trains Félicité as a lady’s maid, while Charles enjoys their home and fails to understand her disappointment.
3. No invitation to another ball arrives, and Emma abandons her pursuits as ordinary days become increasingly unbearable.
4. Her household care declines, her behavior becomes changeable, and palpitations and other symptoms accompany her distress.
5. Charles seeks medical advice and chooses Yonville-l’Abbaye as a possible new home and place of practice.
6. Emma burns her wedding bouquet during preparations, and the couple leave Tostes in March while she is pregnant.

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The sentence joins Emma’s despair with her longing for an imagined alternative life. Paris becomes an answer to suffering that her immediate surroundings cannot relieve.

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