Seperation

August 22, 2010 - pages 80-100

Mrs. Pontellier finds herself alone as her children are taken by her mother in law to Iberville to visit and Mr. Pontellier leaves to go to New York. She goes to the racetrack with Alcee Arobin and her friend.  Alcee Arobin begins to take to her and she finds him to be getting attached emotionally and she can still only think about Robert.  She goes to see Mademoiselle who is a very good friend of hers and finds that Robert will be coming home soon.  She also tells Mademoiselle that she will be moving into her own home.  It is a small cottage around the corner from her home she shares with her husband but it will be bought with her own money.  Again, in an act of rebellion she wants to make a home of her own with her own money and not her husband's.  At this point in the story I feel as though Mrs. Potellier is becoming more withdrawn from everyone.  She constantly separates herself and makes decisions for herself that negatively effect the woman she is suppose to be.  I think it is really unfair that she is expected to be someone who she is not.