Read the excerpt from chapter 31 of The Awakening. "Will you have a spray of jessamine?" he asked, breaking off a few blossoms a
s he passed. "No; I don't want anything." She seemed disheartened, and had nothing to say. She took his arm, which he offered her, holding up the weight of her satin train with the other hand. She looked down, noticing the black line of his leg moving in and out so close to her against the yellow shimmer of her gown. There was the whistle of a railway train somewhere in the distance, and the midnight bells were ringing. They met no one in their short walk. What does Edna’s rejection of the jessamine reveal to the reader? that she is losing interest in her relationship with Arobin that she is torn between her two handsome young lovers that she is tired from the evening’s affairs and needs sleep that she will soon leave New Orleans and her family altogether
