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setting, foreshadowing, female characters, male characters - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Edna starts to spend as much time as possible in the water--not going as far, but still seeking freedom and escape from societal norms (39).
        
        Also as a way of remembering Robert after he leaves. (She associated him with the water because of her night of significant transformation.)
      - Water eventually grows cooler (41), both because it's becoming winter and because Robert is gone.
        
        connection to Twilight (Eclipse)
    - - "si tu savais"
        
        They both feel more for each other than they are allowed to say--the song is a way for them to say this to each other without saying it aloud.
        
        significant that he uses French--these sentiments can't be translated into English
        
        Robert deliberately chooses French in order to hide part of his meaning from Edna. (She doesn't speak French fluently.)
        
        Robert is trilingual and chooses the language to use based on the context. (Ex: he speaks Spanish to Mariequita, sings in French to Edna)
      - Leonce would never sing something to Edna--he doesn't have a poet's soul.
  - - - Doesn't really believe that Robert is going away forever (wants to believe that the story will continue later, that this is just a bad dream, etc.-- in other words, she is in denial).
    - - She wants Robert to come and say goodbye--wants him to see her in a state of undress.
      - feeling the weight of everything that's happened--trying to remove the weight of him leaving/her emotions
      - doesn't want to re-dress herself in societal expectations, resume conformity, come down from the "freedom high" #
      - retreating/hiding in conventional life #
      - peignoir
  - - - "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me" (40).
- - - - ways that Edna begins to behave oddly
        
        "[H]e could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world" (48).
        
        Leonce is blind to who Edna is, how she's changed.
        
        extreme mood swings--on some days she is very happy w/o knowing why, on others she is very unhappy w/o knowing why
        
        She's not her complete self w/o Robert. She's in a weird state and doesn't know what to do with herself anymore.
        
        she's actually finally letting herself feel what she feels--previously, she had suppressed it #
        
        directly tells her husband to leave her alone and that he bothers her (48).
        
        starts to use her painting to express herself--almost like a job, gives her purpose
        
        has a fit--tears up a handkerchief, throws her wedding ring on the floor and stomps on it, smashes a vase
        
        ends up putting her wedding ring back on after the maid hands it back to her
        
        servant = pressure from society (No way to say no to putting it back on when there is someone there watching)
        
        later regrets this scene/thinks she was being childish (47)
        
        stops receiving callers on Tuesdays
  - - - While Edna paints, she's reminded of the sea (+ hums "si tu savais" to herself) (48).
    - - the 'pigeon house'
        
        striving for independence, but not much (she moves only a few doors away into a place named after homing pigeons)
        
        big step for her, though!
  - - - Edna will die? Betrayal? Judas?