Emma's life becomes a web of lies and deception as she engages in extramarital affairs and neglects her child. When her lover, Rudy, decides to end the relationship, he writes her a tactful letter and smokes three pipes before going to bed.
You don't end up liking everyone by the end of Madame Bovary, but in kind of a funny way? Come for the book talk, stay for the butchered French pronunciation.
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