<Tab/>Mrs. Edna Pontellier is a woman without an identity, and a woman without any fidelity to either her relationships or her ideals. This, of course, means that she has not successfully completed Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development, the stage of identity versus identity confusion. Edna is a grown woman who has the mind of an adolescent, and this eventually leads to her downfall as a person and the premature termination of her life.
<Tab/>Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development takes place during adolescence, and, as previously stated,…
