On the outside, Emma ran the perfect household and was the perfect wife. She always entertained neighbors, wrote the bills for Charles and was charming to all visitors and guests. On the inside, though, Emma was unhappy and would even fantasize about what it would have been like to marry another man " . . . she tried to picture those imaginary circumstances, . . . the unknown other husband- (876). She prayed for a lifestyle more exotic than her own and like an answer to her prayers, Madame Bovary was invited to La Vaubyessard, home of the Marquis d'Andervilles.
After Madame Bovary comes back from the ball, she has grown even unhappier. She now had experienced the lifestyle she had always wanted and could never return to that feeling:.
Her visit to La Vaubyessard had opened a breach in her life, like one of those great crevasses that a storm can tear across the face of a mountain in the course of a single night. But there was nothing to do about it. She put her beautiful ball costume reverently away in the drawer "even to her satin slippers, whose soles were yellow from the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with luxury had left an indelible mark on it.
She remembered it every week, even tried to relive it in her dreams. This only led her to grow even more depressed "Some of the details departed "but the yearning remained- (883). Madame Bovary grew shame of her husband and began to even treat him differently. In an effort to redeem himself, Charles bought a subscription to a magazine " to keep himself up to date' - (886). Disliking he husband, her life, and her home, Madame Bovary desperately waited for some event to break up the monotony "Other people's lives, drab though they might be, held at least the possibility of an event . . . But to her nothing happened- (887). .
Perhaps out of anger, and sheer disappointment, Emma Bovary, rebels. She stopped taking care of herself and her home " .
