Edna's Character In The Awakening

The character I have chosen from the Awakening is Edna. I have chosen Edna because I feel she surrendered to the pressure and schedule of being a mother, And to the social aspect of the time period. Edna surrendered through suicide. When you ask a mother what it takes most of all to raise children, she will say sacrifice. Edna feels that her children owned her life. She loved them but she wanted to be free of them. And giving in to the pressure and the demand of children brought her to commit suicide. In the time period of the awakening it was socially unacceptable for women to work. To entertain themselves a group of women would take turns going to each other’s houses for lunch.