Edna Pontellier is trapped both by who she is externally and internally. Edna resists against her natural temptation to be unmotherly when others are around, she marries a Creole, which she is not, and throughout the whole book is fighting to abandon her unknown psychological identity and discover her true one. The origin of this information is from The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin and published in 1899.
Edna Pontellier's attitude causes her to not fit in, so Edna, when around other people, always acts against her true self and pretends to be like a very interactive mother. One incident, Edna felt there was no need to make her children's clothes for the winter, but when Madame Ratignolle expressed her enthusiasm in it, Edna immediately agreed with her. …
