Characters: Tell your favorite character and hated ones!!

[Veronica]

Hey guys please lets start the few topics of the book discussion on the fav and least fav characters in this book!!

[Nikki]

My favourite character was actually a very minor character, Old Rouault. He was so sentimental about his love for his late wife, comforts Charles after his first wife passed, and let his daughter Emma choose if she wanted to marry Charles or not.

I disliked Mr. Bovary (Charles’s father) for obvious reasons. He’s a frequent at the public houses & cheats on his wife with other women, and blames other men for his misfortunes. He thinks it’s a right of passage for Charles to grow up in that Spartan upbringing to ensure his heartiness and often forces his son to do without & makes him feel like a failure throughout his life. He seems like a real treat to be around...poor Madame Bovary Sr.

I have mixed feelings about the rest of the characters.
Charles seems very clueless & dull throughout and it’s no wonder a young Emma Bovary feels like she made a mistake in hastily marrying him.
As Emma is the main focus of the book, I have to say my like and dislike for her character is complex and wavers throughout the story. At first I loved her for her desire to find the adventurous & romantic love she’s been after. I was rooting for her freedom from Charles (maybe not with sleazy Rodolphe) and then instantly disliked her for abusing her child & her continuous string of lies she maintained.

[Veronica]

Nikki wrote: "My favourite character was actually a very minor character, Old Rouault. He was so sentimental about his love for his late wife, comforts Charles after his first wife passed, and let his daughter E..."

That's very interesting in my opinion since all of them were very much too close for comfort with Anna Karenina ( which was a response to this book), it was very hard for me to enjoy these characters but at least Emma Bovary did not commit suicide.