Simple Heart

Simple Heart Synopsis

"e;A Simple Heart"e; : "e;A Simple Heart"e; is Gustave Flaubert's first short story published in the book Three Tales, published in 1877.The story of "e;A Simple Heart"e; 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 confuses the parrot with the Holy Spirit."e;This is by no means ironic as you suppose, but on the contrary, very serious and very sad. I want to pity and make sensitive souls cry, by being one myself."e; Gustave Flaubert.