Edna and Robert return from their trip to the grand isle. She comes to the news from Mdm. R that that “the youngest boy, Etienne had been very naughty”(Chopin, pg. 66). She puts her boys to sleep and is left with Robert because Mdm. R has to go to her husband “he detested above all things to be left alone”(pg. 67). After the kids were in bed Robert leaves toward the Gulf and Edna is left alone. She waits outside alone for her husband to come home. She could go with the other women and socialize but decides against it and thinks about why Robert didn’t stay like other times to keep her company. She also analyzes how different she is now, a different person. During this all she sang a tune “the voice, the notes, the whole refrain haunted her memory” (Chopin, pg. 68).
Ap. Literature: The Awakening 