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Monsieur Rouault's Funeral: Character Analysis
Monsieur Rouault visits Charles the day following his wife’s funeral in order to to deliver him his payment for the medical treatment he had received, and he gives his condolences. He tells Charles to come and visit Les Bertaux again; he happily accepts the invitation. Rounalt cheers Charles up; he soon forgets all about his wife, everything starts to look better for Charles. Charles likes living without his wife, he doesn’t have someone there dictating his every move, he can eat when he wants to any never has to explain himself to anyone. Her death proved to be beneficial for his business, since all the townspeople feel now bad for his loss. Charles keeps on visiting Les Bertaux. Later, he sees Emma by herself, and she asks him to have some

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