A Simple Heart

"A Simple Heart" : "A Simple Heart" is Gustave Flaubert's first short story published in the book Three Tales , published in 1877. The story of "A Simple Heart" is simply the story of an obscure life, that of a poor country girl, devout but mystical, devoted without exaltation and tender as fresh bread. She loves successively a man, the children of her mistress, a nephew, an old man whom she cares for and then her parrot; when the parrot is dead, she has it stuffed and, dying in turn, she confus