Edna and Huck took their independence.
             Edna takes the definitive decision of moving from the family house. She says to Mademoiselle Reisz, "I am going to move away from my house on Esplanade Street." (Chap. 26). Consequently, "Edna hastened her preparations for quitting her home on Esplanade Street and moving in the little house around the block." (Chap. 29). It was unbelievable of a lady of that time to even envisage not living with her husband. People could not conceive that a wife lives apart from her husband, and that is the reason why Mr Pontellier has to save the appearances. (Chap. 32). Without paying attention to these conventions, Edna moves from home. Through that material and physical action, she symbolically takes her independence, she wanders from the static and defined place society had planned for her.
             Huck takes physically his independence by escaping from his father and the Widow Douglas. He says: "I would walk off with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away...and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more." (Chap. 6). Huck not only takes his independence physically, but also symbolically. Huck's use of words and their rules shows the independence he mentally takes from the world around him. He tells his story in his own words that are free of all the grammatical rules of 'standard' English. Huck's plain way of speaking is his way of creating his independence within the confines of society. That means is stressed through his way of misspelling "sivilization" ("sivilize", chapter 1). The choice of that word as the symbol of his deliberate ignorance of the 'correct' use of the language is obviously not innocent. Huck sets himself free from civilisation; it shows that he distance himself from society. In refusing to adopt the spelling imposed by society, the 'co...