Edna’s struggle with life and her independence was hard, she was very depressed. She goes away to an Island to get away from her worries. She ends up falling in love with another man in the process though she was married. The trip changed her and her perspective of the world including her independence. She moved out of her house to live on her own away from her husband and her children. Robert the man she fell for on the island moved in with her for a time but he left her and it devastated her. She had nothing she lost her family and the man she fell in love with. She thought she wasn’t need in this world anymore that she wasn’t important to anyone. So ending her life was what she sought.
