1. Edna's Self-Expression
The Creole women on Grand Isle inspire the first mode of expression that Edna learns. ... The Creole women prove to Edna that it is okay to speak and think about one's own feelings. ... Even though "Robert helps to teach her the language of sexuality, she wants to speak this language loudly, as it were, while Robert still feels social pressure to whisper" (Ward 6). ... In this way she is like the parrot in Chapter 1 who speaks " a language which nobody [understands], unless it was the mocking-bird" (Chopin 1). ... Although Robert has taught her the language of sexuality, Edna becomes t...
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