Sometimes, Mrs. Pontellier is just not happy with her marriage. Despite this, she does go quite well with Mr. Pontellier, and Edna has not given much second thoughts. On one night, however, she feels "an indescribable oppresion, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her conciousness". She describes it as a mood, one that definitely does not feel right. Mrs. Pontellier is finally starting to realize a bit of the truth, the fact that something might actually be wrong in terms of the men-women relationships that every woman has to live through.
Despite these little things going on in Edna's head, life goes on. Edna meets up with her friends, and upon seeing that Mr. Pontellier had sent bonbons, all the friends and Edna admit Mr. Pontellier as being "the best husband in the world". In the inside, Edna probably does not agree, really, but she's just going with what everyone else says. This can be compared to oppression in the bigger scale, where all women believe that this oppresion is normal, just because every other woman has to go through the same thing. The 'waking up' is harder is everyone else is still sleeping.
Having this in mind, it's probable that Edna's 'waking up' would start a chain reaction that would wake others up as well.
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