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.
