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Describe Edna Pontieller's socioeconomic status. Using a historical interpretation, explain how critics may view Edna's restlessness as a result of boredom - characteristic of a privileged lifestyle where financial struggles are rarely a concern.

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As you consider historical context within Edna's character, you might describe her upper class socioeconomic status and how her limited social freedoms caused her to make choices within the novel to protest and rebel against her social status as a woman and also upper class member.

Her restlessness, I feel, was a result of boredom, a direct characteristic ...

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