Up to now, we have read four stories about four condemned women, and they were all either condemned by social conventions or restricted by them. Coincidentally, they were all works of male writers. How can a man fully understand a woman's desires or dilemma? The answer is that they probably did not, and that they it is inevitable for them to look at women from a man's point of view. Flaubert saw Emma's desires as tedious and superficial wanting caused by the influences of romance novels, and she was condemned for breaking the moral codes. Ho ....