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Thesis: Chopin warns women must understand the responsibilities of marriage and children before making such a commitment. Edna slowly realizes that once she marries and has children, society defines her as a sign of her husband's wealth. She feels owned by both Leonce and her children, to whom she has an obligation she cannot break. Yet she desperately wants her freedom and exercises control over her own body. In the end, Edna's profoundly disturbing suicide allows Chopin to show the extremes to which women may go to assert their self-ownership