ove Edna to suicide. This conformity also lead to positions in society that she could not escape, and when she tired to be any different than that of the norm, society lashed back. Victorian society was not about to let a respectable member miss conform, especially when she had been a conformist all her life. Mademoiselle Reisz had not been a conformist and had broke the boundaries of society so long ago that she became over looked and even a joke within the Creole society. As it is true today, as well as in Victorian times, society allows a misfit into their group so they can always view how refined they are. Ironically, this idea of having someone to show how a social class is better than another was in itself childish and below what the Victorian class thought they truly believed in and stood for. Mademoiselle Reisz was used as a model of what one desires not to achieve. Edna was one of societys models of what a woman should strive for; rejecting the society around her[was] a notion too radical for[her] peers (Nickerson). Another irony, Edna tried to view Mademoiselle Reisz as her model if she[was] to succeed and soar above tradition and prejudice (Thorton 52). Mademoiselle Reiszs music seemed to open up and speak to Edna, which soon led to her awakening. Mademoiselle Reisz, while admittedly is nothing like a vixen (Wolff 2), is described by Chopin as a disagreeable little womenwho had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive (Chopin 21). Mademoiselle Reiszs quarrelsomeness led to her undisputed position of being a spinster. Viewing her strictly as the artist she was, one could even say she would fit a typical idea of someone who views her art and life the same, as forms of expression. Even though she was an artist in Victorian times (a time when even artist were not radically expressive) she still used her artistic talent as one of the many excuses why she could express herself. Mademoise...
