3/4 of the way through Chopin's novella and it's reminding me of a couple Virginia Woolf pieces...
...the first being "To the Lighthouse" and the second being her essay "A Room of One's Own"...
...I like how Edna has her awakening around the same time she starts seeing Robert in a new light...
...and she becomes depressed when he leaves. It's as if she realizes that she DID have a man in her life that was attentive and cared...