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Vocabulary 1. Idiosyncrasy- noun: A mode of behavior or way of thought particular to an individual (p93) 2. Coquetry- noun:
After Edna goes to be with Adele Ratignolle during the birth of her child, Edna goes back home to the “pigeon-house” and finds that Robert is gone but he left a note for her. The note says, “Good-bye, because I love you…”. Robert leaves Edna this note saying that he has to leave her because he loves her too much. He realizes what he has done and how he feels about Edna but that Edna is married and has a family, therefore, he can not be with her.
“It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.” Edna cries when he leaves because of the slight wave of irresponsibility and guilt that overcome her. However, she dies not feel remorse for her actions and simply wishes her first “awakened” love experience could have happened with someone that she actually loves. Edna starts to move her things to prepare for her new home “without even waiting for an answer from her husband regarding his
However, he can't keep the feelings hidden and comes home. In the end, he leaves her. Which shows the biggest difference between Edna and Robert. Edna, in her awakening, sees change and hope.
Edna tries to satisfy this desire by taking part in an adulterous affair with Alcee Arobin, a known playboy. However, this relationship doesn’t satisfy Edna’s wish for companionship as she uses Alcee only to satisfy her sexual desires. This all changes once Edna meets Robert Lebrun, who invokes a sense of excitement and love in Edna. Edna sees her relationship with Robert as her only chance to gain freedom from the confines of society; additionally Robert gives Edna the chance to have a fulfilling relationship as opposed to her loveless one with Leonce. Although the two are deeply in love with one another, Robert is unable to reciprocate Edna’s desires to be together.
After swimming successfully, she develops feelings for Robert. After this awakening, Edna starts to step back and rethink her entire life; her marriage, her role, and even herself. She realizes she feels sort of imprisoned in this life she has had for so long. Edna finally starts doing things for her, she is letting herself feel an attraction for another man even though she is married and she also gets into art and has everyone in the house model for her. Rather than doing things to get the house ready for her husband or spending time playing with her children, she is distracted by all her newly found
The ocean, and by extension swimming, serve to symbolize liberation and the pursuit of that thereof. Edna grew up as a respectable woman in Kentucky, a landlocked state with no land connection to the ocean. After settling into marriage with Léonce Pontellier, she moves out to coastal Louisiana and spends summers out in Grand Isle, surrounded by ocean. Grand Isle is where Edna meets Robert, and where she experiences her awakening. While there, Edna begins learning to swim, and as she learns to control the water she in turn discovers that she has agency over her own body.
She seeks a connection with the outside world and what her community offers. Moreover, her disappointment in life is resolved through “Grand Isle” and its overall mood. Pontellier’s pain and sorrow are all eradicated when vacationing here, as she finds the people who help her get rid of her peeves and problems. She traversed Grand Isle daily, trying to understand and unravel her inner self. Pontellier’s ability to throw herself into various physical circumstances and thrive alone demonstrates what she views as satisfactory in
Plot Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier are on their summer vacation at Grand Isle. There, Edna has an affair with Robert which starts her awakening. From then on, she goes into a rebirth and takes actions in
It was here that Edna Pontellier experienced the only freedom she had left, which was death. Edna’s suicide was the only way she could get everything she wanted but society denied to her. She died in Grand Isle, where she always felt free. The city setting of New Orleans contributed greatly to the struggles that Edna went through and the trapped feeling she always had. Without the contrasting settings of Grand Isle and New Orleans, Edna’s feelings would not have been made as evident, and she would not have felt the way that she did during the book.
She begins to have a life of her own. Edna goes out to horse races and starts seeing another man, Arobin. Most importantly, she decides to move out and buy her own small house. She makes up her mind that she wants to be with Robert instead of her
If he were to say, ‘Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,’ I should laugh at the both of you” (108). Throughout the story Edna’s feelings for Robert grow stronger and deeper, so that by the end of the novel she simply longs to be with him. Yet parallel to that growth Edna has discovered her self and developed her own identity. The idea of a transfer of ownership of her person from one man to another is abhorrent to her, so much so that it would cause her to abandon her dream of being with Robert. Though she wants that very much, she is unwilling to lose her own identity in the process as she did when she was with Mr. Pontellier.
Edna’s husband who repeatedly goes out of town for long periods of time. He makes up for it by sending Edna and the children bonbons, a treat that Edna usually just hands out to friends. Throughout the novel, Edna struggles with depression based on her longing for freedom from her obligations to her husband and children. She is not truly happy living out the typical lifestyle of an upper class housewife in the late 19th century. She attempts to gain her freedom by pushing herself away from her husband and children, emotionally and literally.
Edna kills herself at the end of the novel and frees herself from the social confinements. Edna, in the beginning of the novel, tailors her life to the path set before her. A mother of two, Edna 's life does not concern herself, but her husband and children. All of Edna 's interests are thrown to the side to make way for her family, as a mother-woman would do in the nineteenth century. Edna understands
