says, "She remains tied to an unsatisfied maternal
             longing that forces her either to subordinate herself to, or to divorce herself from, her own
             children"(260). (She believes this is a lack of nurturing from her own mother.)
             Secondly, when Edna realizes that Robert is the one she has been longing for, "she liked to
             sit and gaze at her fair companion as she might look upon a faultless Madonna"(Chopin
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