Flaubert's Style

A Simple Soul, by Gustave Flaubert, is a text where we can clearly see a style called Free Indirect Style, a style in which the writer is 3rd person omnicient narrator, that describes the emotions of a person without dialogue. In It, the author needs to characterizise, narrate and describe the character and his/ her feelings. Flaubert does this with ease. Felicite is described in a way that we can picture her almost perfectly, feel what she feels, her despair, her love, her emotions, and Flaubert not once specifies what she's feeling, just by the way she is described. Flaubert is very detailed in most of the writing, describing most of the context in which Felicite is in, what happens to her, etc. Another adjective very appropriate to this style is realistic. Flaubert pretty much tries to immitate what life was, how Madam Aubain treats badly Felicite, how she pretends to like her when she inside always thinks that she's lower class and ignorant. I myself have tried this style, and it's very hard to accomplish, because not evreyone has the capacity of making the reader feel the emotion of the character, like Flaubert can.