eir husbands for support. She rarely missed her children and only visited them once the entire summer. Edna felt alone. She attached herself to young men that she thought would take her away from the place where she didnt belong. She fell in love with Robert because he was the one who started the awakening. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream (620). She imagined that he would take her away to a place where they could be happy and she could be who she wanted. Edna was wrong. Robert was a man of the times. He didnt believe in Ednas ways. When Edna came back, Robert was gone. I love you. Good-by---because I love you (623). Edna had no one. She didnt have anyone to love her for who she was. She didnt have anyone to talk to about it that would understand. The only way out was to go back to the sea, the only place she felt she belonged. The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation (547). As she stood looking out over the sea she felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known (625)....
