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My first reaction to the last bit of reading is that i simply don;t understand were Barnes is going. He flips around, changes point of view, changes time but then i realize Barnes is accomplishing what he set out to do. He's giving me a complete knowledge of Flaubert, form many different point of views and people. You begin to understand just exactly why Flaubert uses such dark humor. He was a bitter guy, and seemed to lash out at people around him, never sugar coating things or putting anything but a realistic, maybe even pessimistic view on things. With his negative review of Louise Colet's writing, and his over all rudeness to her just reflects that he no longer really cares for relationships as all his have ended in death. I still find this book to be quite dull, apart from the occasional dark humor that makes me laugh. I truly understand Madame Bovary much more now, the tone, the theme, the characters, etc. I wish we had read this before Madame Bovary.