oine follows this principle of freedom
             throughout the rest of the novel. Constant anxiety surrounds Isabel about the use she would ever
             make of her freedom, which she never doubts or questions. By accepting the consequences her
             free acts, Isabel is satisfied by doing herself the justice of always being considerate of herself.
             "She has chosen with the sense that the ordinary benefits of life are not likely to satisfy her, and
             her major acts [will be] refusals to accept the ordinary" (O'Neill 39). Keeping this in mind,
             Isabel proceeds throughout the novel with this single ideal. Still, when Isabel becomes really
             free to make a decision on her own, she is afraid. Isabel is right to be afraid, for her desire for
             total freedom will eventually have to be translated to her destruction. But, "in the course of the
             novel...she is affronting her destiny rather than succumbing to it" (Winner 143). It is an ongoing
             battle for her to stay in control. How Isabel affronts her destiny is what finally determines how
             she will handle freedom and her own life, in general.
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