Perhaps the most apparent connection between the two chapters is the symbol and role of the sea which allows Edna to find the light that she has been searching for. ... Concluding that there is no possible way of ever finding happiness and contentment within herself, society, or within her family, Edna looks towards the sea as a last alternative for satisfaction. She eventually decides the sea over man because nature perhaps understands her like no other person or thing. ... The sea also allows her be independent free from worries concerning her family: "She thought of Leoncë and the ...

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These men, according to Erasmus, live for the sound of rattling dice, and they are so caught up in their passions that they are oblivious to the rest of the world around them. ... Other men, "marries a woman's money, not herself, another for a small and uncertain gain exposes his life to the casualties of seas and winds, which yet no money can restore. ...

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