Being woke gives self-confidence, which relates to Edna. Once she is in her full true state, she is woke with the society. She gained the self-confidence to find her true desires along with her sexual desires. She ended up leaving her husband and kids, which went against the societal standards in the late 1800s. It was expected that there was faithfulness in ones marriage, and divorce was incredibly rare and frowned upon. She knew the standards of society at the time, and that it would be frowned upon to go against them, but she had the confidence to.
