"I lost control, just like a six-year-old, I started howling." (Page 144)
This particular sentence reminded me of the servant girl in Gone With the Wind who travels with Scarlett O'Hara to Atlanta. The girl was about the same age as Edie, and she was just as naive and a bit annoying as well. When it came time for Melanie Hamilton to have her baby, the servant girl claimed to know "all about birthing babies," but she really didn't which forced Scarlett to deliver the baby. (Successfully, I might add. Go Scarlett!) The servant girl was sent before the delivery happened to find the doctor amid all of the chaos that was Atlanta burning down. She did not find the doctor, and she returned in an almost daze-like manner. Her actions paralleled Edie when confessing to kissing Chris: nonchalant, easy-going, without a care in the world.
Edie wasn't a character I particularly liked, but I must pick her as my favorite among the main characters provided to me in each of the three short stories we read. She was a bit ditsy, but she ended her life happily which is a tribute to her character as a person if nothing else.
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