eedom and escape of Edna. At the end of the story, Edna frees her self from all the restriction by escaping to the ocean and finally kills herself by drowning into the deep sea. Edna feels that she becomes part of the nature and don't have to care about those worldly affairs. Also, the sound of the waves calls her and comforts her throughout the novel, and acts as constant beckon till she finally go back to it and drown her self in it. However, the other way of interpret the image of the ocean is it serves as a nature force which don't have any emotions or feeling as people interpret it. The image of the nature force is not necessarily positive and it forms a contrast with the worldly confusion and disputes of human beings. Nature doesn't have special emotion, and even don't supply people comfort as they think it would. Nature is nature; somehow the feeling of Edna becoming part of the ocean is just her own feelings projecting to the nature force.
             Edna's wedding ring is the symbol of the confination from her marriage to Leonce Pontellier which is not easily breakthrough. One time she's so depress that she pounds the ring on the floor and hopes to break it, however, it doesn't break. "..........and taking off her wedding ring, flung it upon the carpet. When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it, but her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet." There's nothing she can do but put the ring back on. And Mr. Pontellier is just like the controller who loves Edna but at the same time, sees her as an object and personal properties. "............looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage." (chapter1) He gives Edna the restrain by asking Edna to sacrifice herself for the children and the family.
             When Edna sees a couple of lovers walk...