Edna's Emotions
Edna feels this “overwhelming” sensation, as if normal rules no longer apply to her.
What is an overwhelming feeling of irresponsibility?
Edna is planning to leave this street, where her current home is located.
What is Esplanade Street?
Edna originally plans for this many guests at her “very grand” dinner.
What is twelve?
Name one element of the table that makes it look "extremely gorgeous"
What is any of: pale yellow satin cover, lace work, wax candles in brass candelabra with yellow silk shades, yellow and red roses, silver and gold, or glittering crystal?
After Arobin leaves, Edna does this, but it’s described as “only one phase” of many emotions.
What is crying a little?
The little place Edna moves into around the block is nicknamed this, a name that sounds small and delicate.
What is the “pigeon house”?
She cannot show up to Edna's dinner due to an illness.
What is ten?
Edna wears a magnificent cluster of diamonds in her hair, a birthday gift that came from this city.
Edna feels a new, “quicker, fiercer” emotion for Robert. Name that emotion.
What is a more overpowering love for him?
Edna doesn’t wait for this person’s answer or opinion before preparing to move.
Who is her husband?
This male guest sits on one side of Edna at dinner, with Monsieur Ratignolle on the other.
Who is Alcée Arobin?
Edna’s age and the occasion: she admits this number of years and asks them to drink to this event.
What is she is twenty nine and it is her birthday?
Two different “reproaches” trouble Edna: one from her husband and one from this man.
Who is Robert?
Inside her Esplanade Street home, Edna feels like someone who has wandered into this kind of sacred but forbidden place.
What is a forbidden temple?
This journalist guest is described as “connected with one of the daily papers” and “observant and quiet.”
Who is Mr. Gouvernail?
During dinner, Edna's appearance is that of this kind of woman.
What is a regal woman/queen figure?
Edna feels as if “a mist had been lifted from her eyes,” and she can finally see “the significance of life, that monster made up of” these two things.
What are beauty and brutality?
Edna only moves belongings that count as truly “hers.” What counts as "her" belongings
What is “everything she had acquired aside from her husband’s bounty”?
Name all the individuals who attend the dinner.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, Mrs. Highcamp, Mlle. Reisz, Monsieur Ratignolle, Victor Lebrun, Miss Mayblunt, Mr. Gouvernail, and Arobin.
Even in the middle of this “cozy” party, Edna is hit by this familiar mood of hopelessness.
What is ennui?