The stark transformation between placid submission into contemptuous rebellion can be attributed to the certain instances and events that transpired over the course of the summer at Grand Isle. ... Her self-drowning was a conscious statement that declared that she would rather sacrifice her own life than forfeit her newly found awakening to the encroachments and assaults of the overbearing social confinements of the Victorian life. ...

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