Edna Pontellier was a good mother when protecting her children from harm, but she never mistaked herself for them. She exclaims as she talks to Madame Ratignolle that, “She would give up the unessential; her money and her life but she would not give herself (Chopin 80). Edna seems to believe there is something more than her life that could be taken, which Madame Ratignolle finds hard to believe. She says, “But a woman who would give her life for her children could do no more than that” (Chopin 80). Edna also seemed to value her needs over her husbands and unlike her kids he noticed it. “He found it very discouraging that his wife who was the soul object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little his conversation” (Chopin 12). His comment shows that the disappearing acts were not all his fault; a

If Edna had a strong mind, she may have made better decisions toward her family. As she awakens from the dazes that she would fall into, she seemed to be the world’s mother and wife, which was the mother her kids wanted to see and the wife her husband fell in love with. It seemed that Edna was just the early woman of the twentieth-century.

he will never wholly release her from the spell. Perhaps she will never again suffer a

Yes. On the twenty-eight of August, at the hour of midnight, and if the moon is

realms of the semicelestials. His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he

shining-the moon must be shining-a spirit that has haunted these shores for ages

poor, unworthy earthling to walk in the shadow of her divine presence (Chopin 49).

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