Chopin opens with the allusion to the bird, object of entertainment and property trapped in a cage, which implies Edna's position in the dead marriage with Leo, that he was "wrong". Detailing that Leo is too excited and in a "good mood" after a long day at work, Chopin portrays his thoughtless rude action of sharing news with his wife. He reveals his remark towards her as his property and "the only object of his existence" which makes Edna feel desperate, she wonders "why she cried" being like all other women in the society just to obey her husband's command . Chopin, later, denounces Leo as the heartless husband who treats his wife as an object to satisfy his needs by satirizing the conversation of Leo and Doctor Mandelet. Leo questions Edna's transformation as something wrong, but instead tries to communicate with Edna and understand the problem. He complains about the way she acts and makes him feel "uncomfortable" and that he can't make Edna obey him like all the other women always do with their husbands. The thought has spread to every man in society that Edna's father also sees his daughter no longer a person, but a legacy of Leo individually, and an object like all other women in general, and that men are the only ones who they can "put [their] foot down well and