... voices of the ocean. Edna did not marry the man she was in love with, because her father and sister opposed the union on religious grounds, "Add to this the violent opposition of her father and her sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier for her husband- (18). Edna ... has set herself up for a failed marriage with Monsieur Pontellier and has allowed her dreams of romance to vanish, "closing the portals forever ... her submissiveness. Instinctively, she begins to rebel against the narrowness of h...

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