"...and Farmer Rouault, on his legs again, came and
went, making the farm more full of life" (Flaubert 14)
Monsieur Rouault
is a very nice man, but seems too fixed on fulfilling his vices than
running his farm. I think it would be a great understatement
to just say he enjoyed the drink. He loved alcohol and tobacco; I can
even remember that at his daughter’s funeral he was “ smoking
his pipe” I thought it was “quite out of place” but it
always seemed his vice was more important then everything else or maybe it
was just his way to cope with his loss. He was always a generous man
always helping the Bovary’s, when he could, and he always would send
a turkey to Charles on the anniversary of when he fixed his leg; I think
that was a very thoughtful gesture. He had a tragic life both his wife
and daughter died at such a young age. Even more unfortunately he has
become paralyzed, so he wasn’t able to take care of Berthe after Charles’s
death.
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