Of course this is an unfair compromise but Edna is not concerned with this in her final moments. Instead, she is thinking about all the people she knows and how they doubted her. She turns over in her mind ideas of how they will react and how they were so wrong about her when they find out what she did. It is difficult to comprehend the idea of taking one’s own life just to prove people wrong, which is likely not the only thing Edna was thinking about here. Edna values the liberation of all women from the cage of marriage and feels that with a sacrifice such as her own, she will awaken others of her ideas and pass down a legacy of what she values