![]() ![]() paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back." For Edna, this story is not about the ending it is all about the detail - the experience rather than consequences. Note that the story lacks true resolution, offering only that "a woman. The elements of her story are based on her one entire day spent with Robert on the Chênière, including the fictitious disclaimer that she'd heard the story from Madame Antoine. Her tale, which she makes up on the spot, is really a description of her ideal resolution to her current situation. Desiring to instruct Edna, the doctor offers a parable of a woman's love returning her husband, a lesson that is lost on Edna. Léonce's tale is a superficial reminiscence of a traditional childhood, while the Colonel, as the retention of his title suggests, still strongly identifies with his role in "those dark and bitter days" of the Civil War. Mandelet notes that Edna is no longer "the listless woman he had known" but reminds him of "some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun." Note that as everyone tells stories at the dinner table, each person's story indicates some measure of the teller's personality. Disinterest in coquetry aside, her burgeoning sensuality is evident to others.ĭr. This lack of flirtatiousness is ironic, given her later affair with Arobin, which is based entirely on sexual chemistry. ![]() This chapter reveals that Edna lacks the art of flirting. Edna, nonplussed, counters with a vivid tale of her own about a couple in love who rowed away one night in a small boat and disappeared in the Baratarian Islands, never to be seen again. ![]() During dinner, the doctor tells a story about a married woman who fell in love with another man but returned her devotion to her husband in the end. Mandelet comes to dinner one night and is alarmed by Edna's high-spirited recollection of their day at the races - he fears she is already enamored of Arobin, a notorious womanizer. They spend time at the racetrack, where they socialize with Mrs. Edna's father, the Colonel, comes to visit. ![]()
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