Edna seems to have a constant change of mood, to the point
where it begins to seem unnatural. Although she once says that her mere
feelings for Robert are nothing like those for her husband, many of her
thoughts and actions contradict this statement. At the end of chapter 15, Edna holds back
tears when Robert leaves for Mexico, giving her short answer to her asking him
to write her. “Edna bit her handkerchief, striving to hold back, and to hide,
even from herself as she would have hidden from another…” (Chopin 94). She is
even jealous when she finds that he wrote to his mom, and not Edna. Her
feelings for Robert seem to depict the way she chased and enamored guys before
she married Mr. Pontellier. After Alcee Arobin kisses her hand, she feels a
pang of guilt, not for having a husband though. “She did not mean her husband;
she was thinking of Robert Lebrun. Her husband seemed to her now like a person
whom she married without love as an excuse”(132). I think Edna’s constant
change of heart is going to get her in trouble.
this very true she is what we would refer to as bipolar. one second shes all sunshine and happiness. then the next shes Debbie downer and gloom and rain.
ReplyDeleteEdna does always seem to be changing moods. She does it in an almost bipolar way. She doesn't just change her mood with guys. She will also change her mood about her feelings. Her feelings seem to change each chapter.
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