Robert´s Gone...What A Bummer

Throughout chapter XV – XX the main conflict in the novella is Roberts’s departure and Edna’s constants depression and neglect towards her supposed chores.

I guess I was wrong when I said that Robert and Edna would have some kind of love related relationship but the reader learns that Robert is heading out to Mexico. Surprised by the news Edna decided to just ignore it and goes home mad. Adele comes and comforts her but Edna is to mad with Robert for not telling her. However Robert then appears and talks with Edna about the situation, Edna in some way is still mad with Robert for not telling her before. I believe that Edna obviously cares for Robert and in some way looks at him as much more that friends and Robert…Well Robert is in fact in love with Edna or at least has feeling for her, proving by hypothesis not entirely wrong.

During the next chapters Edna fights with the fact Robert has leaved town and decided to become even harsher and neglectful with her husband, leading Leonce to thinks she is crazy. Every so often as the novella progresses we find ourselves hooked with the fact that Edna is no longer the same woman that Chopin describes in the first chapters. She is known an intrepid woman that is able to stand for herself and discuss what she wants to discuss and what she doesn’t. In my opinion I think Edna is a role model to what will become of the contemporary culture, a woman that doesn’t fear what others say to her. Instead she fears what she cannot accomplish. What I mean by the previous statement is that Edna sees herself as a lonelier and with Robert gone she is exasperating even more the feeling leading her to fear what she cannot accomplish herself what she cannot reach in an ocean where the tide is against her.

Edna from my point of view, inferring from her actions is every time more concentrated on her own self and she even tells Adele that she would give anything for her kids except her life, which Adele disagrees saying that life is the greatest thing a mother could give up for her kids. In my opinion I think no one should give their life away for another one, every human being has a purpose on earth however it is thought that a mother’s love for their children overpasses any other desire. You could look at it from any angle you’d like and it’s just a matter of opinion and Edna feels that she is more important than any other person from the angle I see it, this could mean that Edna is no longer the expected mother Mr. Pontellier wishes her to be or maybe she never was. Even so I guess we will have answers for all this mystery’s by the end of the book.