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.