Characters
The first name of the main character.
Who is Edna?
Robert going to _____ symbolizes separation
What is Mexico?
“Several persons informed her simultaneously that Robert was going to ______." This is the place that Robert is moving to.
What is Mexico?
Mrs. Pontellier finds out Robert is leaving when he _________.
What is announced it at dinner?
This character suddenly tells people that he is moving to another country, and Mrs. Pontellier is angry that he hadn’t told her already.
Who is Robert?
Mrs. Pontellier bites down on this object to suppress her emotions.
What is a handkerchief?
“For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.” describes this character.
Who is Mrs. Pontellier
Edna goes here after quickly finishing dinner.
What is her cottage?
First name of Mr. Pontellier
Who is Léonce?
What is a blossom/flower?
“This seems to me perfectly preposterous and uncalled for. I don’t like it. I don’t understand your motive for silence and mystery, never saying a word to me about it this morning.” Mrs. Pontellier is upset for this reason.
Robert never told her that he was going to Mexico, even though they had been together for much of the day.
Mrs. Pontellier finally realizes these after Robert leaves.
What are her feelings for Robert?
Mrs. Pontellier declines an invitation from this character to go and stay with them until another character moves later that day.
Who is Madame Lebrun?
Robert lights this object, symbolizing the light fading into the darkness.
What is a match?
“______ kissed [Mrs. Pontellier] good-night, and went away, being in truth rather desirous of joining in the general and animated conversation which was still in progress concerning Mexico...” The blank in this quote is filled by the name of this character.
Who is Madame Ratignolle?
This is the reason that Robert gives for why he is leaving Grand Isle.
What is business?