# In Lubbock's reading of Madame Bovary, why does the book open on Charles's history, and what does that teach about preparing a late change of viewpoint?

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Lubbock explains the novel's apparently casual opening on Charles as preparation: Charles's inner mind and point of view 'must be created in advance and kept in reserve' so that the last pages, where he finds Emma's letters, land at once. In this reading Emma's story is framed by Charles's. The general lesson, as Lubbock draws it from this one book, is to establish a viewpoint before the moment it is needed. This is Lubbock's rationale for Flaubert's structure, not Flaubert's own statement.

Lubbock explains the novel's apparently casual opening on Charles as preparation: Charles's inner mind and point of view 'must be created in advance and kept in reserve' so that the last pages, where he finds Emma's letters, land at once. In this reading Emma's story is framed by Charles's. The general lesson, as Lubbock draws it from this one book, is to establish a viewpoint before the moment it is needed. This is Lubbock's rationale for Flaubert's structure, not Flaubert's own statement.

Curator qualifications: Charles opening as preparation; Lubbock's reading.

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- [sourced_fact] Lubbock explains the novel's apparently casual opening on Charles as preparation: Charles's inner mind and point of view 'must be created in advance and kept in reserve' so that the last pages, where he finds Emma's letters, land at once. In this reading Emma's story is framed by Charles's. The general lesson, as Lubbock draws it from this one book, is to establish a viewpoint before the moment it is needed. This is Lubbock's rationale for Flaubert's structure, not Flaubert's own statement. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt

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