Women should listen to men?

In the Great Awakening Kate Chopin shows how much men believed women should listen to their every word. Chopin writes, "It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally... That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which appear before the world," (page 77). After Edna started to act like herself and Mr. Pontellier notice he couldn't help but sometimes assume she was going crazy. Men believed that they had so much power over women. It shows how in that time power over women was just seemed like common sense and no one would ever question it. If they didn't listen or act like what was acceptable they worried men and were punished. Chopin also writes, “I’m not making any fuss over it. But it’s just such seeming trifles that we’ve got to take seriously; such things count,” (page 69). Mr. Pontellier was looking over who wanted to meet with her. He controls her relationships and easily refused to listen to anything she had to say about it.