Emma hoped to transform herself into the perennially beautiful heroine of her romance novels, but she cannot. She is abruptly abandoned by Rudolphe at the very moment she expected to slip out of reality and into the dreamy world of her illusion. In such a fragile state, she reunites with Leon and hopes to begin anew. Emma’s liason with Leon triggers a landslide of wretched decision-making. By the end of the novel, she has created a huge debt for her family and faces blackmail and shame. She has lost all reasoning skills and seems to dash and dart around in a surreal world of shattering illusion. In a grim and gruesome scene, she swallows arsenic and endures a wretched death that her poor husband desperately watches in horror.

This link is to explain why this is not a good paragraph.

First, the paragraph is only about Madame Bovary. Hence, it is a lump. This ‘lump’ was placed here because often student writers become tired towards the end of the paper and revert back to this inferior structure.

Secondly, there is little in this paragraph that could be called specific detail. Again, students grow weary at the end of a poorly-planned paper and begin to dash off vague or sweeping generalizations rather than working to recall or retreive, (or reread!) specific details from the work.

To fix this pp, concepts from both novels should be discussed point-counterpoint. Refer back to previous paragraphs for examples.