Why did Edna walk into the sea…? For the duration of Edna’s
adult life she has been trapped in a marriage with a man who considers her as
on would a common housemaid. She has had no opportunity to do more than play
house, yet, inside her existed a desire to break free and experience all that
was unknown to her. In the novel we see
that the sea has a sort of grip on Edna’s soul and she longs for it. She wants
to break free, to tear away from others expectations of her. She no longer
wishes to live the routine laid out for her. She may enjoy being a mother but
she does not wish to be seen as nothing more than a mother. Given the
opportunity, Edna chooses not to
enter the same cycle and lifestyle that marriage offers, but instead, she looks
to free herself from the bounds of marriage and men. By walking into the sea
she meets herself. She awakens herself to the reality that she can live a life
her own, a life where she is free to fulfill her OWN wishes. She shakes off the shackles of a life she has
always known by walking into the water and chooses to live her own life, not
the life of a stranger, a stranger who finds joy in being subordinate to
another human being in the name of love.
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