Yet, the fault in their relationship occurs because Lèonce has a …show more content…
She has abandoned her Tuesdays at home, has thrown over all her acquaintances, and goes tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark. I tell you she’s peculiar. I don’t like it; I feel a little worried over it.’ (118).
This proves that he has no understanding of Edna, for he continually views her as his possession instead of a person, and whenever one of his possession exhibits a fault, he needs it fixed. Through her entrapment to him, bounded through their wedding rings, Edna believes she needs her final awakening, where she knows that Lèonce “need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul,” (176). Thus, Edna and Lèonce’s unbalanced, unloving relationship helps to propel Edna need for her final awakening in which she commits suicide due to her suppression in Creole