ther the contented, motherly Adele Ratignolle; or the eccentric pianist Mademoiselle Reisz; or Arobin; nor (most disappointingly) Robert, understands at all the confusion in her mind, much less the pain in her heart. None of them, including the women in which Edna confides, have ever experienced anything similar, at all.
             In these ways, then, Kate Chopin explores, as a key theme (and a socially disturbing one for
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