Bye Bye Robert :((

Chapter 15 leaves off when Robert leaves to go to Mexico and a heartbroken Edna holding back her tears.   Her feelings for Robert are clearly visible, but the problem is that he didn’t really feel the same way back. He had a fling with a different woman every summer and then he moved on, and so for him, Edna was just another chess piece in his ever-changing game. But for her, he was it, everything she wanted and adored that her own husband didn’t give her. “How long will you be gone?’  ‘Forever, perhaps, I don’t know. It depends upon a good many things.” (Chopin 60) A person most likely would tell someone when they will return, but he doesn’t even care about her enough to give her a definite answer on his return. In most cases, when two people have feelings or a strong type of connection for each other, they can’t be ripped apart, but as we can see, Robert is unaffected by Edna ad how distressed she is. So what comes next for Edna? The man she cared about the most just walked out of her life, with no assurance on coming back.