Friday, February 26, 2016
Depression
It's been awhile since Robert has left for his trip and ever since then, Edna hasn't been herself. She's been wandering around by herself, visiting friends every once in a while but the one person that she seems to be defying the most is her own husband. She seems to be having different mood swings where one day, she'll be happy but then the next day, she'll be depressed. In fact, she's acting so strange, that Mr. Pontellier decides to talk to the doctor about her "symptoms" and it seems that he is the only one who is oblivious as to why she is acting the way she is. "'...but she doesn't act well. She's odd, she's not like herself'" (Chopin 88). In my opinion, I think this is a little bit of foreshadowing because when you suffer through heartbreak, depression usually follows and as you suffer through depression, it can drive you towards making irreversible and life changing decisions. It takes a very long time for depression to pass through and in some cases, it never does.
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I don't think Edna is depressed at all, I think she doesn't know who she is. Her suicide is the repercussion of her lack of identity which is the result of society not letting women to advance like men. In a way, she's immature but not at the fault of her own, in her awakening she notices how stunted she is compared to the men she's come to know who all live satisfactory lives while the women are the most conflicted.
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