Sometimes young people can tend to believe everything that the people that are close to them tells them. Especially that first love will make them a different person, either for the good for the bad. As young and inexperienced, young people tend to make decisions that if they were older would not make. Young people would not hesitate in believing any promises that older men would make to them. Just in the case of Edie. At the end of the story, Edie took responsibility for her happiness rather than wait for a man to give it to her.
