Madame Bovary

What is the main conflict in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert?

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The novel's main conflict revolves around Emma's marriage. Emma wishes for romance, money, and status in society...... something that she will never attain in her marriage to a doctor of the middle-class.

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