After Madame Ratignolle and Robert’s conversation suggests that Edna’s attraction towards Robert comes from Edna’s desire for an intimate physical and emotional connection she lacks with her husband, Mademoiselle Reisz, with her artistry, subverts that assumption. Edna’s love for Robert does not stem from the loneliness she suffers from her marriage, and she knows this but denies it anyway until Mademoiselle Reisz plays a prelude by Chopin. With the pianist’s help, Edna dejectedly acknowledges that her love for Robert is a result of her independent nature and worries for the societal backlash that may come with it.
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier’s spinal column. It …show more content…
Those others? Bah!” and she went shuffling and sidling on down the gallery toward her room.
But she was mistaken about “those others.” Her playing had aroused a fever of enthusiasm. “What passion!” “What an artist!” “I have always said no one could play Chopin like Mademoiselle Reisz!” “That last prelude! Bon Dieu! It shakes a man!”
It was growing late, and there was a general disposition to disband. But some one, perhaps it was Robert, thought of a bath at that mystic hour and under that mystic moon. (Chopin 26) For a long time, Edna compares the song to her emotionless relationship she has with her husband, hence, the name “Solitude.”As soon as Reisz hits “the very first chords,” however, she could tell at once that she has been denying her volition in order to fit into society’s standard of a woman from the “keen tremor” she feels. The term “keen” implies that the song feels unusual and the “very first chords” suggest that she feels the “tremor” …show more content…
The pianist’s famous brutally honest personality breaks Edna’s chain from seeing the same pictures over and over again despite Edna having listened to a wide range of interpretations. Every artist’s work contains a part of themselves and “Solitude” is not an exception. The Mademoiselle’s interpretation of the song refuses to let Edna see anything, but to confront her feelings of volition, the true reason why she falls in love wit Robert. Edna’s intense experience as she listens to the song brings her to tears because she doesn’t want to acknowledge it, fearing the backlash if she follows her instincts, but the song’s insistence makes her realize that these feelings will never fade and will only
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier’s spinal column. It …show more content…
Those others? Bah!” and she went shuffling and sidling on down the gallery toward her room.
But she was mistaken about “those others.” Her playing had aroused a fever of enthusiasm. “What passion!” “What an artist!” “I have always said no one could play Chopin like Mademoiselle Reisz!” “That last prelude! Bon Dieu! It shakes a man!”
It was growing late, and there was a general disposition to disband. But some one, perhaps it was Robert, thought of a bath at that mystic hour and under that mystic moon. (Chopin 26) For a long time, Edna compares the song to her emotionless relationship she has with her husband, hence, the name “Solitude.”As soon as Reisz hits “the very first chords,” however, she could tell at once that she has been denying her volition in order to fit into society’s standard of a woman from the “keen tremor” she feels. The term “keen” implies that the song feels unusual and the “very first chords” suggest that she feels the “tremor” …show more content…
The pianist’s famous brutally honest personality breaks Edna’s chain from seeing the same pictures over and over again despite Edna having listened to a wide range of interpretations. Every artist’s work contains a part of themselves and “Solitude” is not an exception. The Mademoiselle’s interpretation of the song refuses to let Edna see anything, but to confront her feelings of volition, the true reason why she falls in love wit Robert. Edna’s intense experience as she listens to the song brings her to tears because she doesn’t want to acknowledge it, fearing the backlash if she follows her instincts, but the song’s insistence makes her realize that these feelings will never fade and will only