Through Action

Flaubert's style in chapter I-III is based on a description through the plot of the story. He introduces his description through various ways, most of them are in movement, he writes: "then, when dinner was over, the dishes
cleared away and the door securely locked, she would bury the log
under the ashes and fall asleep in front of the hearth with a rosary
in her hand"(a simple soul).

At the beginning of the story we meet with more pauses, that lead us to a sudden description, not much hidden through the action set on the story, for example when he writes: "then she left her house in Saint-Melaine,

and moved into a less pretentious one which had belonged to her
ancestors and stood back of the market-place. This house, with its
slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a narrow
street that led to the river" (A Simple Soul). Here we can see the pause Flaubert used to start describing the house, the period. Before he was talking about the action but in order to create the approach to reality he uses the pause.

But he focuses more on describing through the action, just as in Sauls Bellow's Seize The Day. When writes: "Every Monday morning, the dealer in second-hand goods, who lived under

the alley-way, spread out his wares on the sidewalk. Then the city
would be filled with a buzzing of voices in which the neighing of
horses, the bleating of lambs, the grunting of pigs, could be
distinguished, mingled with the sharp sound of wheels on the cobble-
stones"(A Simple Soul). The srtucture he gives here is quite interesting, because once he uses a lot of words it creates the feeling of a crowded market, looking at it in a literal level.

The way Flaubert describes here is more through the action, this makes the reader realate more to reality because that is the way in which we feel and see things, not through sudden stops, but through actions that lead us to the description.

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The balloons can only be described through the movement or action they are given, just as Flaubert does, the action makes the description more appealing and possible.