“”Nothing. I simply felt like going out, and I went out.”” (pg. 51), she defies her husband by not doing her job, or better said supposed job. In New Orleans Edna had the responsibility to host people in her house on Tuesdays, people that where business partners, or wives of business partners of her husband and she would gossip and interact with them in order to help maintain the relationship between them and him. But when she comes back from Grand Isle she decides she will no longer be participating in such an activity, infuriating her husband. This showcases her actions of rebellion towards what was expected for a woman to do in her time, instead of listening and following her husband like a puppy does to its owner, she said no and stood against was expected of