Edna Feels Like A Bird

While reading, I've noticed multiple things about the book. Edna does indeed talk about the ocean and the beach and birds a lot, but there are other things that I'm also starting to notice. Kate Chopin states that, "Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind." (71 Chopin). As we see her, another reason for her "rebellion" against the world and allowing herself to feel free come from the music. We also can notice that the ocean makes her feel this way. Especially when she tells us how she was learning how to swim and finally went out on her own and swam. "How easy it is!' she thought. "It is nothing," she said aloud." (74 Chopin). Here we can comprehend that Enda once again feels free and rebellious. She almost seems... Bird like. Her "rebellion" seems to make her feel free as a bird does. Flying carelessly and living reckless, doing what it wants and being what it wants to be. Edna is like a bird and her connections with the bird show how she can create these connections with the bird, like on page (71 Chopin),  while listening to Mademoiselle Reisz play the piano, she flashes back to listening Madame Ratignolle play what she calls "Solitude" and said, "When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him." Birds are associated with rebellious daring acts for Edna and it as this way throughout the book.