Edna Pontellier Wants To Swim-
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Edna Pontillier Wants to Swim
Edna Pontillier is a woman playing the role of the wealthy New Orleans housewife. She has a generous husband, children, financial stability, and a great deal of friends. What she also has, unfortunately, is a kind of generic happiness that is the result of such a conve ....
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.... is not. She makes a choice, and many events lead up to this final act of suicide.
Edna realizes she is till very young and has grown numb to feelings of vitality, love, and freedom; her spirit has become nonexistent. What she discovers are things she could not ignore. The first changes occurred when she began sleeping when she pleased and spent time doing want she wanted, mostly painting or swimming. She also began to break away from her husband’s oppression. He would attempt to contro ....
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Word count: 869
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
