As the relationship between Edna and Robert progresses, Robert's affections and attention inspire Edna to dramatically change. ... However, Robert eventually returns and expresses his feelings for Edna. ... Reisz is the only one who knows of Robert and Edna's secret love. ... Edna returns to her house to find Robert gone with a note left for her. Robert could not escape the constraints of society. ...
During her vacationing, Edna meets Robert Lebrun. ... Edna and Robert quickly develop to an "advanced" stage of intimacy. ... Edna tried to turn down invitations given to her by Robert, but often agrees. ... Edna's relationship with Robert plays a large part in her search for identity. ... As most would assume, she took "the easy way out" and left everything behind without a care in the world and just continued on with her selfishness. ...
Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. ... Edna is forced to choose between Robert and her family. ... The flames of love quickly consume her, and the presence of Robert invades her every thought. ... The "life- left behind consists of her "material possessions-(home, husband, children). However, when Edna's final rendezvous with Robert ends in disaster, she chooses to make one last decision. ...
She prefers to spend her time with a young man named Robert. Robert is a native to the island and he usually picks one woman each summer to hang around with. Edna and Robert are close to the same age, whereas Edna and her husband are very far apart in age. ... Also Mademoiselle Reiz receives letters from Robert about Edna and this makes Edna realize just how much she loves Robert. ... She was a little selfish in the fact that she just left her children without a thought. ...
This gives insight into the comment that Madame Ratignolle says to Robert on a walk home, "She is not one of us; she is not like us. ... Mademoiselle Reisz can sense the artist inside Edna and knows that she can let it free, she can feel that Edna is not like the others just as Madame Ratignolle had mentioned to Robert. ... He knows that with her leaving and not leaving an excuse as to why she left, they have not held up their part of the social conventions. ...
The two of them are also troubled with love and relationships, Edna with Robert and Hester with Arthur. ... Hester first lost her independence to the letter "A" stitched on her chest by the puritans and this left her unable love, but gradually as she became more independent of the culture and her emotions overran her she realized that she must be with Arthur. ... Edna does not love Leonce, and she struggles with that fact in the beginning of the novel, though Edna does love Robert and has an emotional affair with him and she has a physical affair with Arobin. ...
