The excerpt from The Awakening that best illustrates the idea that Edna is losing control of her life is this one: <span><em>She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference. </em></span><em />You can see it says that she abandoned herself to Fate, which means that she doesn't control anything that happens to her anymore.
she wanted to be the first woman to be in the army for a long time and she said she would be in the same boat as her mother if she had been growing up with the family of the right 7
