By Kate Chopin
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Edna’s husband, Léonce. Whereas Edna returns happy and relaxed after her swimming lesson, Léonce focuses on propriety and, especially, on social position. ” The wives of successful New Orleans businessmen cannot be mistaken for servants, whose sunburned faces and arms suggest domestic or garden work. Even on vacation, Edna cannot forget her responsibilities to her husband’s social stature, and Léonce obviously never forgets. Chapters 1–4 27 The Pontelliers are comfortable in their relationship.
The charm of Edna Pontellier’s physique stole insensibly upon you. The lines of her body were long, clean and symmetrical; it was a body which occasionally fell into splendid poses; there was no suggestion of the trim, stereotyped fashion-plate about it. A casual and indiscriminating observer, in passing, might not cast a second glance upon the figure. But with more feeling and discernment he would have recognized the noble beauty of its modeling, and the graceful severity of poise and movement, which made Edna Pontellier different from the crowd.
Likewise, Chopin’s description begins with Adèle’s gold-spun hair, moves to her sapphire blue eyes and her pouting lips that remind Edna of delicious cherries, and then lingers on her exquisite hands. Reaching back to the Renaissance poets, Chopin uses a rhetorical device most often associated with the unattainable perfection of the ideal woman. For Edna, Madam Ratignolle is the unattainable ideal. CliffsComplete The Awakening She is the perfect mother-woman that Edna can never be—nor does she want to be.