26.feb.07

"At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like sailors in distress, she ran her despairing eyes over the solitude of her life, searching afar for some white sail in the mists on the horizon. "
                                                            ...Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

I recently found this vintage wedding photo and thought it looked so ethereal and ghostlike that I couldn't help but see a fading life.  complexion pale but of a comely grace, melancholy with a sad and sober face.  a woman of modest countenance and soft speech.   Were her intentions of marriage and family perfectly conservative ? Did she  have the ability to distance her self from the traditional female domestic role, from her father’s house, and from the control of others?  Did she quietly put money in a jar for her own future?  was her life fulfilled?  Or did she fade away as the photo suggests?  It seemed fitting to pair the photo with a quote I found from Madame Bovary.  Today is a melancholy monday.