A Couple Quick-Writes

We began today with this warm-up: Is Edna “awake” yet? If so, how awake is she? To what exactly has she been awakened? After learning to unsubscribe from Moodle forum emails and wrapping up the "Reading and Responding to Literature" presentations, we added the following quick-write to the warm-up page: In chapter XVII, after fighting with Léonce at dinner, Edna, in a moment of anger “[takes] off her wedding ring” and “[flings] it upon the carpet.” The narrator says, “When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet” (87). There are two levels to this moment, literal and symbolic. Explain them.