Many look at women as inferior to men. Even women sometimes have these perception of themselves. Edna is one of them. A woman that doesn't realize women are equal to men, and permits others to treat her unjustly, only by the difference of her sex. She allows her husband Léonce to command her without previously realizing how she diminishes herself. She also places herself at the bottom, even by the way she speaks. She doesn't know how to swim, but when she does it for the first time, "she wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before".(Chopin 60) The use of her words, as she says "where no woman has swum before", diminishes the female sex, since she wants to overcome other women but not men. She doesn't even bother to say she would like to go beyond, where men have swum. But why would she diminish herself if there is a man that besides being of the superior sex, places her above him? He is always there for her and cares for her. Will she prefer Robert kindness than her prestigious husband Léonce? Maybe love will overcome marriage. Robert does not deny Mrs.Pontellier relationship status, but he does not deny his love either.
"Is she your sweetheart?"
"She's a married lady, and has two children,"(Chopin 71) Robert said when asked about Edna.
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