READ THESE 3 PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS OF EDNA’S PREVIOUS ROMANCES. BELOW, EXPLAIN WHAT THEY TELL YOU ABOUT HER ABILITY TO FORM RELATIONSHIPS.

- she remembered that she had been passionately enamored of a dignified and sad-eyed cavalry officer who visited her father in Kentucky...But the cavalry officer melted imperceptibly out of her existence.

At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation...the realization that she herself was nothing, nothing, nothing to the engaged young man was a bitter affliction to her. But he, too, went the way of dreams.

She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate. It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian [actor] began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses...The picture of the tragedian stood enframed upon her desk...When alone she sometimes picked it up and kissed the cold glass passionately.

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Prior to her married life, Edna experienced several sexual, passionate obsessions with men that could not lead to actual relationships. While fixated on a dead writer, Edna felt that the "persistence of the infatuation lent it an aspect of genuineness.

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