Distant Finale: The last two chapters take place a couple of decades after the rest of the story they describe the hollow existence lived by Frederic as he goes from youth to middle age, and depict one last encounter between Frederic and Marie. Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Frederic in the last chapters of the book. Subverted in that Frederic fails to mature psychologically as he grows older. Coming of Age Story: One of the most famous in French literature. Cloud Cuckoolander: Frederic's infatuation with Romantic cliches makes him one. His future was that of a bourgeois mediocrity but despite their failings, he and Deslauriers still remained friends. Bittersweet Ending: The finale, Moreau and his true love parted ways. But yes, I too believe that was the best time of our lives! Gustave Moreau and Deslauriers, the two main characters look back on their years of friendship and youthful hijinks and finally remember an early misadventure where they gatecrashed a brothel, early in their youth before going to Paris:ĭeslauriers: Well perhaps. 
Best Years of Your Life: The finale and the novel's famous last lines is a poignant reflection of this. Anti-Hero: Frederic is self-deluded, ineffectual, and generally a loser. Throughout the following years, even as he obsesses about his (platonic) relationship with her, his life founders in a routine of mediocrity. While moving to Paris from his native Normandy, he becomes lovestruck with Marie Arnoux, an older married woman. The story is that of Frederic Moreau, a young man whose perception of life is heavily influenced by Romantic cliches. 
It is considered one of the most important novels in 19th century French literature. Sentimental Education is a novel by Gustave Flaubert first published in 1869.
Years passed and he resigned himself to leaving his mind idle and his heart fallow. His intellectual ambitions had likewise lessened.
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