At this point, the novel begins to focus on Emma. Her father gives his consent, and Emma and Charles are married.
When Heloise dies, Charles waits a decent interval, then begins courting Emma in earnest. Charles is immediately attracted to her, and begins checking on his patient far more often than necessary until Heloise''s jealousy puts a stop to the visits. Emma is a beautiful, daintily dressed young woman who has received a ''good education'' in a convent and who has a latent but powerful yearning for luxury and romance imbibed from the popular novels she has read. One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner''s broken leg, and meets his client''s daughter, Emma Rouault. His mother chooses a wife for him, an unpleasant but supposedly rich widow named Heloise Dubuc, and Charles sets out to build a practice in a small village. Later, Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an officier de santé in the Public Health Service. As the novel opens, Charles is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school amidst the ridicule of his new classmates. The story begins and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. ''Madame Bovary'' takes place in provincial northern France.
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