In chapter 22 of the novel,” The Awakening,” written by Kate Chopin, Mr. Pontellier went to discuss Edna with their family physician, Dr. Mandelet. ” She doesn’t act well. She’s odd. She’s not like herself. I can’t make her out and I thought you might help me.” (Chopin, page 109) Mr. Pontellier explains to Dr. Mandelet. Leonce describes Edna’s ‘rebellious’ behavior of her lack of social activities and her lack of intimacies with him. Dr. Mandelet offers the idea of Edna attending her sister’s wedding so that she can be surrounded by her own people. Edna refuses to go to a “most lamentable spectacles on earth.” (Chopin, page 110). Leonce invites Dr. Mandelet over for dinner as a good friend on Thursday so that he will be able to observe Edna himself. Dr. Mandelet wonders if there is possibly another man in Edna’s life.