Madame Bovary Passage ABut it was above all at mealtime that she could bear it no longer - in that small ground floor room with its smoking stove, its squeaking door, its sweating walls and its damp floor tiles. All the latterness of life seemed to be served up to her on her plate; and the steam rising from the boiled meat brought gusts of revulsion from the depths of her soul. Charles was a …showed first 75 words of 349 total…

…showed last 75 words of 349 total…reflects Emma=s feelings about her ordinary and boring life. Flaubert then goes on to describe Emma=s boredom with her life and her marriage by showing her drawing Alines on the oilcloth with the point of her table knife@. Flaubert is contrasting Emma=s dark and depressing point of view to the narrarator=s normal and simple point of view. Flaubert uses the ugly details of realism to show his dislike for the bourgeoisie.