The Awakening, Ch. 30-34

The next chapters of The Awakening, Edna hosts a farewell party before she moves into the “pigeon house”. Edna wears an elaborate yellow dress and a diamond tiara, given by her husband for her birthday. Leonce showers Edna in gifts and pays for the party, however he does not come. Without her materialist husband around, Edna’s mind wonders and she gets bored. Her emotions get stirred soon in when Victor, a young adult, starts singing Edna’s and Robert’s song. She gets very upset and the party ends.

Edna closes out the large house and moves into the smaller, “pigeon house”. This scene holds significance as it leads to an actual affair at the new home. Edna holds a sense of hopelessness and feels it’s something outside of her. She doesn’t really know what to do with her and the three men she is messing around with. Edna continues to be a very unstable character, and I have a strong feeling Edna won’t make it through the rest of the novel.