In her novel, George Sand condemns romantic individualism, showing its falsehood and insolubility. She explains this phenomenon in the circles of bourgeois youth of the 1830s: dissatisfied ambition arising from the universal pursuit of wealth and a career. “All the impulses of personal interest, all the forces of egoism, tense and expanded to extreme proportions, have produced ailments unknown until now.” Lofty phrases about high ideals often conceal egoism, excessive ambition, and the unfulfilled vanity of failures. That is the main character of the novel “Horace.”