Character is molded by experience. Refers to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"

From earliest infancy, an individual's character is molded by experience. In Gustave Flaubert's novel entitled Madame Bovary, Emma's unorthodox behavior during her married life can be attriuted to the illusions she maintained about life during her girlhood. These, combined with her father's disinterest in her mental happiness become the force which eventually leads Emma Bovary to commit suicide.         When she was 13 years old, Pere Rouault took his daughter, Emma, to town to put her in …

…Her weakness drew her to him, and he knew just how to exploit that weakness. He was an experienced lover, she was a naieve housewife. The rest is history.         Coming from such dreams, her later unhappiness was inevitable. The characters from her dreams were not realistic, and by modeling her behavior after them, she could not be successful in the real world. This is why the story of Emma had to end as it did.