A man professes to be in love with her during an agricultural fair in which a prize is awarded to a woman who has lived on the same farm for fifty-four years.
This character longed for a honeymoon in Switzerland, and she throws her dried up bridal bouquet into a fire in a fit of rage. A man professes to be in love with her during an agricultural fair in which a prize is awarded to a woman who has lived on the same farm for fifty-four years. She uses the pretext of piano lessons to secretly see another man, though their affair turns stale when she demands increasingly extravagant activities. Her finances are proved to be in ruin when (*) Monsieur Lheureux demands payment on the loans he has given her, and when she cannot pay he threatens to confiscate her and her husband's property. Because of this, she convinces Justin, the assistant of the pharmacist Homais, to give her a fatal dose of arsenic. For 10 points, name this wife of a doctor named Charles, the title character of a Gustave Flaubert novel.
This character longed for a honeymoon in Switzerland, and she throws her dried up bridal bouquet into a fire in a fit of rage.
{Emma Bovary} (accept either name; accept {Madame Bovary})