Before meeting Charles, Emma looks out of a window dreaming of having a romantic relationship and leading a rich life. After their marriage, Emma quickly becomes unhappy and dissatisfied with Charles. Flaubert adds a scene with windows to show Emma's feelings of being trapped in a marriage with a man she will never love; “three windows whose perpetually closed shutters slammed on their rusty iron bars” (43). As the windows are boarded up and rusted, Emma cannot see them, illustrating her feelings of being trapped in her marriage to Charles. Often, Emma would “sit in her armchair by the window, she could see the villagers passing on the sidewalk” (121) and wish she were them. Escaping from behind the window was Emma's dream. Unfortunately, in the end, his escape with his life was suicide by poison. As she became ill from a poison she had ingested, she shouted to Charles, "It's nothing... Open the window... I'm choking!" (311), symbolizing his last and successful attempt to metaphorically escape from behind the window. Emma saying she “chokes” (311) translates to “she is choking” because of her unhappy life with Charles. Flaubert's intention to use suicide as Emma's ultimate means of escape is appropriate because throughout the novel she has inflicted harm on Emma.