It’s a woman’s task, what to do when we are told it’s your task to do certain things? I don’t understand how Enda can manage Mr. Pontelliers attitude. He thinks, she doesn’t do anything all day, he thinks she just sits there. Well, women do lots of things men don’t know they do, or they might know, but they think it is easier to do them. Being a lady is easy. Give amen, a piece of chiken, he will masacre it till a woman comes and saves him, unless baking chicken is their specialty. Woman are able to multitask, and in order to do that, they need rest.
Mr. Pontellier comes in to his room without any care, he walks loud, and talks even louder. Poor Edna is trying to sleep, getting energies to deal with the next day, however lovely Mr. Pontelier doenst care and tells her about everything he cares about. Edna being half asleep can only make certain noises, Mr. Pontellier then wonders why Enda doesn’t share interest in the same topics. Oh well, thats tough. If you are talking to a person that has just woken up, chances are you wont get much of an answer. However as Mr. Pontellier hasn't had enough, he walks to the room and checks on his sons. After revising them, he assures Edna one of them has a fever. As a mother would know, she contradicts Pontelier, he soon coments on how taking care of the children is Ednas job, he brings money and food to the house, so like he does this wonderful things, he takes as a fact, that Edna will take care of her children.
As an obedient wife, she wakes up, walks to the children and sees for herself that... they don’t have a fever. Unabe to sleep, she just cries. Silently, at first she tries to hide the tears, cleaning them with the sleeve, after some time, she realizes that the tears can’t be hidden any more and that trying to dry them is irrational, " the tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them" (pg. 22).
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