Two Faced Relationship

Mrs.Pontieller is acting like she doesn't like Robert Lebrun, but this is in direct contridiction with how she was acting at the beginning of the book. She puts on a show when she is in front of her husband and then when he isn’t there she acts like he doesn’t exist and that goes to show how two faced she truly is. She doesnt make herself very likable to the readers from her non mothering instincts to having her two-faced relationship with Robert Lebrun. “During his oblivious attention he once quietly rested his head against Mrs. Pontellier's arm. As gently she repulsed him. Once again he repeated the offense. She could not but believe it to be thoughtlessness on his part; yet that was no reason she should submit to it. She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.(Chopin)” she rebuffs him like she doesn’t know him or that she has no relationship with him at all, but she had just been on the beach laughing and giggling with him the day before. So what is the real relationship between the two? Then she contradicts herself again when he asks her to go to the beach with him, but she refuses at first and then she eventually goes with him. “"Are you going bathing?" asked Robert of Mrs. Pontellier. It was not so much a question as a reminder.” "Oh, no," she answered, with a tone of indecision. "I'm tired; I think not." Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.” "Oh, come!" he insisted. "You mustn't miss your bath. Come on. The water must be delicious; it will not hurt you. Come." “He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head. They descended the steps, and walked away together toward the beach. The sun was low in the west and the breeze was soft and warm.”