Edna Chopin, Maybe?
The places where Edna seems to almost take the leap or have a breakthrough may well be autobiographical for Chopin or at least based on her life. She led a fairly oppressed life especially when she lived in New Orleans with her husband (Baym 551). She well may have been much like Edna in some ways and felt many times like she could not speak her mind and was at the place of breakthrough, but could not do it. Chopin finally did breakthrough the barrier and become a more independent woman after her husband died, she moved back to St. Louis, had to make her own decisions, and raise six children (Baym 551). One of the places that could have been a breakthrough for Edna is when she finally learns to swim. “Edna had attempted …show more content…
Mandelet (Chopin 648). She opens up to him some when he asks her about “going abroad” with Leonce and she replies, “Perhaps—no, I am not going. I’m not going to be forced into doing things, I don’t want to go abroad. I want to be let alone” (648). The doctor offers to listen to her “troubles” by telling her, “I will only say that if ever you feel moved to give it to me, perhaps I might help you. I know I would understand, and I tell you there are not many who would” (649). She basically tells him, thanks, but no thanks and I am a selfish person that does not want help when she says, “There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don’t want anything, but my own way” (649). If she had taken him up on his offer, he could have possibly helped her and she could have had the breakthrough to emotion stability, but she refused. As they are parting, the doctor pressures a little more after she says another selfish remark, “Oh! I don’t know what I’m saying Doctor. Good Night. Don’t blame me for anything” (Chopin 649). The doctor tells he will blame her if she does not come to see him and he encourages her a little more by saying, “we will talk of things you never have dreamt of talking about before” (Chopin 649), but again she is too selfish, and she says wants her “own way.” The reader is bound to think this might be the salvation for Edna, but it
The places where Edna seems to almost take the leap or have a breakthrough may well be autobiographical for Chopin or at least based on her life. She led a fairly oppressed life especially when she lived in New Orleans with her husband (Baym 551). She well may have been much like Edna in some ways and felt many times like she could not speak her mind and was at the place of breakthrough, but could not do it. Chopin finally did breakthrough the barrier and become a more independent woman after her husband died, she moved back to St. Louis, had to make her own decisions, and raise six children (Baym 551). One of the places that could have been a breakthrough for Edna is when she finally learns to swim. “Edna had attempted …show more content…
Mandelet (Chopin 648). She opens up to him some when he asks her about “going abroad” with Leonce and she replies, “Perhaps—no, I am not going. I’m not going to be forced into doing things, I don’t want to go abroad. I want to be let alone” (648). The doctor offers to listen to her “troubles” by telling her, “I will only say that if ever you feel moved to give it to me, perhaps I might help you. I know I would understand, and I tell you there are not many who would” (649). She basically tells him, thanks, but no thanks and I am a selfish person that does not want help when she says, “There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don’t want anything, but my own way” (649). If she had taken him up on his offer, he could have possibly helped her and she could have had the breakthrough to emotion stability, but she refused. As they are parting, the doctor pressures a little more after she says another selfish remark, “Oh! I don’t know what I’m saying Doctor. Good Night. Don’t blame me for anything” (Chopin 649). The doctor tells he will blame her if she does not come to see him and he encourages her a little more by saying, “we will talk of things you never have dreamt of talking about before” (Chopin 649), but again she is too selfish, and she says wants her “own way.” The reader is bound to think this might be the salvation for Edna, but it