It Just Flows

A Simple Heart starts with contextualizing the reader with what has happened so far in Felicity’s and Madame Aubain’s life. The way Flaubert describes the situations they have passed through and what they will pass is certainly pitiful. When Flaubert describes the precarious situation that they had to confront when Madame Aubain moved to her ancestors’ house, he somehow manages to get his description resemble the most precarious state a person can get. Part of his description is the following, “This house, with its slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a narrow street that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that it caused people to stumble”. His way of writing is very concise and doesn’t contain even a bit of wordiness, which is great. When an author makes his pieces of work wordy he/she overstates his ideas and makes the reader become uninterested about his work because what the reader thinks in this case is that the rest of the book is just more of the same last pages he has been reading.

But Flaubert’s A Simple Heart makes every single point of the book worth the while. With Flaubert’s style you can write about the most uninteresting topic in your opinion and, even if it’s bad, you’ll feel that you got over it really fast. When a piece or writing is not wordy it contains a lot of factual and important material which acquires what a wordy writing tries to do (clear things up) but in a more interesting and fascinating way.