Generally suggest Emma's boredom resulting from marriage and a mask of deception she creates for her husband. His eyes, as Flaubert recalls, and their colours, "black when seen in the shadows, dark blue in bright light, seemed to have different layers of colour...", and that "Charles' eyes were lost in those depths"5, suggest that Charles would never be able to penetrate beyond Emma's superficiality and look beyond her appearance. When Emma throws her wedding bouquet into the fire near the end of Part I, angered by her dismal marriage, the response of the flames ("slowly devouring" the dried flowers) suggests Emma's dying hopes for her future and foreshadows the Emma's unpromising marriage. But it is ironic how at the end of that chapter Flaubert informs the readers that Emma has become pregnant, as if he too wants Emma to have a possible hope of joy in this