... taste of life's delirium" is preferable to the "blind contentment" of the Ratignolles. Edna later tries to abandons her former lifestyle by moving out of Leonce's house and into a smaller, "pigeon-house- on the corner of the street. Edna at first claims that she is tired of looking after that big house but later admits that she wants to move because ... that by freeing herself of the financial chains that bind her to Leonce, she can clear the path for a relationship with Robert when he returns to New Orleans. In the pigeon-house, Edna felt "a feeling of having descended in the social sc...

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