... 's all right! He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence- (Beaty 41). The caged parrot will come to symbolize the expectations that society has for Edna. As a woman and mother, she is caged ... falling in love with Robert and will lose all consciousness of the events around her. Edna's spiritual awakening sets her soul free, yet it also serves to isolate her from those she loves. Her love, Robert, is unwilling t...

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... for the main character. Beyond the solitary armchair and the room with a closed door, there is through the newly opened window a world that Mrs. Mallard has yet to discover. "The notes of a distant song [ ]- (Chopin 177) reach her through the window. Although she cannot see her future, for it is shrouded in mist and fog like the world outside the window ... able to see the "open square before her [ ] the tops of trees [ ] aquiver with new spring life- (Chopin 177). Even though she has not yet been able to "Free! Body and soul free!- (Chopin 178), she is beginning to recognize that there...

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