Before meeting Charles, Emma looks through a window dreaming of a romantic relationship and a wealthy lifestyle. After their wedding, Emma quickly becomes unhappy and dissatisfied with Charles. Flaubert adds a scene with windows to show Emma's feeling of being trapped in a marriage with a man she will never love; “three windows whose perpetually closed shutters rattled on their rusty iron bars” (43). Because the windows are closed and rusted, Emma cannot see them, which describes her feeling of being trapped in her marriage to Charles. Many times Emma was “sitting in her chair by the window, she could see the villagers passing along the sidewalk” (121) and she longed to be them. Escaping from behind the window was Emma's dream. Unfortunately in the end, his escape from his life was suicide through poison. As she became ill from a poison she had ingested, she shouted to Charles, "It's nothing... open the window... I'm suffocating!" (311), symbolizing his final and successful attempt to escape metaphorically from behind the window. Emma saying that she is "choking" (311) is translated as "she is suffocating" because of her unhappy life with Charles. Flaubert's intention to use suicide as Emma's final escape from her life is appropriate because throughout the novel she has inflicted harm