In one instance, Edna witnesses a “distant bird” that is “winging its flight away” from her (Chopin 27). This vision Edna has is a direct correlation to what she wants to do in her life. She wants to experience freedom and escape from the world that is confining her. She reflects in her “imagination” her “hopeless resignation” she feels down on earth, but the bird gives her hope (Chopin 27). Edna is stuck in an unhappy state because she is living in a place that does not understand her, therefore she has lost hope in regaining any happiness if she continues to live the way she does. She knows she must break free of her bindings and try to go somewhere that will make her happy and express herself freely, away from all her responsibilities. She is caught in a social cage of misunderstanding, therefore her quest for freedom is born within this
In one instance, Edna witnesses a “distant bird” that is “winging its flight away” from her (Chopin 27). This vision Edna has is a direct correlation to what she wants to do in her life. She wants to experience freedom and escape from the world that is confining her. She reflects in her “imagination” her “hopeless resignation” she feels down on earth, but the bird gives her hope (Chopin 27). Edna is stuck in an unhappy state because she is living in a place that does not understand her, therefore she has lost hope in regaining any happiness if she continues to live the way she does. She knows she must break free of her bindings and try to go somewhere that will make her happy and express herself freely, away from all her responsibilities. She is caught in a social cage of misunderstanding, therefore her quest for freedom is born within this