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Her friendship with Robert becomes romantically charged. Soon, Robert leaves Grand Isle for Mexico, where he hopes to forget the illicit romance.

Edna spends the rest of the summer longing for his company. In September the Pontelliers return to New Orleans. Edna begins to neglect her household and her children so that she can devote her days to painting, reading, and seeing friends. Edna also becomes romantically involved with Arobin , a fashionable young man with a bad reputation. Their relationship is a source of confusion and anxiety to her. She loves her new freedom and decides to move to a smaller house, moving out of her current home and leaving her husband.

By selling her paintings, she can become financially independent. She throws a beautiful going-away party, but is troubled throughout by feelings of blankness and despair. He is distant and formal at first, but she convinces him to have dinner at her new house, and soon enough they begin to talk frankly and affectionately.

Edna watches the difficult procedure in horror. Baroda intends to do. As we explain in the questions and answers below, Kate Chopin often creates brilliant, sometime ambiguous, closings. The story was written on January 20, , and published in Vogue on February 15, , one of nineteen Kate Chopin stories that Vogue published.

You can find out when Kate Chopin wrote each of her short stories and when and where each was first published. The remaining lines of the apostrophe to the night read:. Press close bare-bosomed night—press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds—night of the large few stars! Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.

Did she assume they would find these remaining lines and understand what Gouvernail is thinking? Pontellier is reading a day-old newspaper next to a group of summer cottages at Grand Isle, a vacation spot near New Orleans. There, other noises distract him: children playing the piano, others playing croquet, Madame Lebrun shouting orders to her servants. We gather right away that he is a cranky, unsettled, slightly ill-tempered man who does not look kindly on the disorder of animals, women, and children.

He prefers order and quiet. Active Themes. Convention and Individuality. As he smokes a cigar, Pontellier watches his wife and Robert Lebrun walking towards him from the beach. When they reach him, he reproaches his wife for going to the beach in the middle of the afternoon, and for her unsightly sunburn.

She quietly retrieves the wedding rings she had given to him for safekeeping. She and Robert laugh to each other knowingly about some small incident they witnessed at the beach; Pontellier asks them to explain, but the joke loses its appeal in the retelling. Pontellier treats his wife as a possession he does not like to see damaged.

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