So, all in all, Edna Pontellier presents herself as one singular self with no predilection to one woman or another. It is sad that she could not deal with the awakening of her soul, that she could not be one of the few to "emerge from such a beginning [of an awakening]." It is very unfortunate that Edna's soul was one of those "souls [that] perish in its tumult."

ption of the fact that the music moves her toward the "awakening" of her sensuality.

Edna Pontellier, as a whole, is a woman completely different from any other in the novel. She stands alone and thinks alone and speaks alone. Her ideas and thoughts are completely hers. It would be wrong to say that Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz are embodiments of two different Ednas. They are not. They contribute

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