Edna Says Goodbye for Good

In class, Miss. Lucia said to pay attention to Chopin's use of oceans. I didn’t understand at first, I mean she did talk about it a lot, but what did it mean? If you finished the book, it makes so much more sense. The last chapter perfectly showed the example of how the oceans represented Edna’s freedom. The first night Edna went into the ocean with the group of friends she didn’t go that far back, and she was a little scared. After that night, that’s when she got a change of mind. She started gasping onto the idea of freedom, and by the end of the last chapter when she walked into the ocean and never came back out, that was when she had the freedom she was searching for. She knew there was no love in her soul for her husband, but for Robert. “‘Good-by---because I love you.’ He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand.” (Chopin 57) The ‘he would never understand’ casts such an eerie feeling, that’s when you can start inferring what Edna was going to do. The ending threw me off guard a little, I didn’t think she would ever commit suicide. It bothered me that she left her kids, but it makes a little bit of sense, but then again she left her kids without a mother. Besides that, I’m glad Edna got the freedom she was hoping for.