... roles; suicide. Edna sees this act as her only means to escape the obligations of a patriarchal society. As she walks into the ocean, "[her] children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and soul to drag her soul to slavery for the rest of her days" (Chopin 180). As the true object of her ... ...

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... , can understand her like no one else. There is nothing left for Mrs. Pontellier on land, even her children appear to her in distorted images. She sees her children as "antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days" (108). Edna feels extremely constrained by her responsibilities ... ...

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