Forbidden Love

Edna is a woman who never seems to know what she wants. Even if she does know, she hides it from herself. In Chapter 7, she talks about how she got married to Mr. Pontellier and about becoming a mother. Before they got married, Edna was interested in him because of a ‘forbidden love’ factor. “Add this to the violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we need seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier as her husband” (Chopin 19). I think that she could desire Robert in this same way, or even Adele. Because their love would be forbidden, she craves that. As we saw earlier in the book, Edna isn’t the best mother, she doesn’t seem to know how to act with them and doesn’t seem like she should have had children in the first place. When she describes the time when her kids went to their grandmother’s for the summer she says, “Their absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself” (Chopin 20).