Mandelet, persists in select actions of conscious disobedience: not attending church, not sleeping with her husband and "let (ting) the housekeeping go to the dickens . . . tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark."" ... Veiled for so long by the docile social conventions ascribed to a Victorian wife, Edna awakens from her dull and loveless life and becomes conscious to act in accordance to her own desires and needs rather than placate them in the name for social uniformity. ...

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