1. Analysis Of Relationships In The Awakening And Madame Bovary
... 223) Edna's children represent an obligation that is unlike her obligation to Leonce. You can divorce a husband, but you cannot divorce your children. When she leaves her children to be cared for by their grandmother, her relationship with her children is evident. She is a mother because of duty, not because of love ... (Chopin 217) The silence between them represents the attraction, yet their inability to relax and be open about their feelings. When Robert leaves for Mexico, Edna's world seems like it is falling apart. They have a strange goodbye, Robert doesn't even call Edna by her fi...
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