Edna is long asleep and stuck in a loveless marriage in Creole society. Her realization that love is more than what she has in her relationship with Léonce is the reason for her awakening and also the reason for her eventual suicide. Robert becomes for Edna a symbol that represents true love and being with him made her realize that she is not in love with Léonce. Edna begins to have a connection with Robert who shows her how bad her life currently is with Léonce. While Léonce is at work, Edna and Robert have plenty of time to build a relationship. For example, on page 35, they jokingly talk about finding the pirates' gold and how they would share and spend it together. Aside from casual flirting, Robert is there for Edna during monumental milestones in her life, such as when she decides to go out and swim in the ocean. Edna had taken lessons but was still too afraid to swim with the others. Robert has many opportunities to become an important part of Edna's life and have a greater influence than her husband ever did. On page 81, Edna is asked “are you in love with Robert?” » and she replies that she is. Her response shows that Robert is becoming this symbol of love apart from her husband. After flirting a lot with Robert, on page 50, Edna deliberately disobeys the rules of Léonce and Creole society when she decides to go out instead of waiting for her callers. At this point, Edna has become much closer to Robert and she shows signs that she no longer likes being in Creole society. Her relationship with Robert helps her realize that she doesn't need to stay stuck in the Creole way of life, she can try to have a better life. Love is the reason Edna wakes up in the novel. Robert is her symbol of love and ...... middle of paper ...... the idea of ​​love helped Edna wake up and it was the driving force of her new life, but with time, she realizes this thing. that motivates his new existence becomes inaccessible, giving him no real reason to live. Edna thinks that Robert is the love of her life, the only person who is different and can give her true happiness. However, Robert later wants Edna to marry him. She realizes that the only person she thought was different was the same as any other man in Creole culture. The idea of ​​love that Edna had constructed for herself was a lie and her entire future was now built on this one lie. Just before she drowns, Edna quotes Robert and says that "he didn't understand." He would never understand” (116). The idea of ​​love awakened her from her past life, but the realization that she could never have this love she had imagined gave her no other reason to live..