The awakening

For this blog, I’m going to be briefly talking about Edna as a mother and how she treats her boys. We learn right off the bat Edna Pontellier has two kids with her husband named Léonce Ponteillier. We quickly learn Edna is the more protective parent and she shows extreme affection and that she cares for these kids. In chapter three the husband checks on the boys when they are sleeping and tells Edna that one of her boys, Raoul has a fever. This concerns Edna greatly because he was perfectly healthy by the time he went to bed but all of a sudden he has a fever? This is suspicious and because of her concern she goes outside and cries until the mosquitoes become too much and make her go back to sleep. As something with Madame Ratignolle and Edna is slowly developing she still makes time for her kids and it shows in chapter seven when she goes on the beach and plays with them in the tent. She begins to learn she is starting to develop feelings for Robert because he is there for her and her kids unlike the husband and when he leaves in chapter 15 she feels crushed. Edna slowly begins to lose her mind a little bit because Leonce leaves dinner to go dine somewhere else and that really bothers her. At the beginning it really shows how focused she was on being a motherly figure and being a good role model for these children but as it progresses it heads for a darker turn which I will explain in my next blog post.