... children. He believes that women should be selfless, never taking from their families, but remaining the one in the household who's sacrificial. Leonce believes, just as other men during the Gilded Age, that Edna should be the "angel of the house," catering to his every need. Leonce Pontellier wants his wife to be one of the "ministering angels," (Chopin 9) who "idolized their ... ...

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