Spending Time

There is nothing that strengthens relationships better than spending time with a person. In this particular case, there could be no better place to stimulate love than at the shore of New Orleans. But this time, it was Edna the one that decided to start the day with Robert. Though it didn't end in the same romantic night with a kiss that the audience so much loves, it gives that same predictable element of the novel. She simply decided to go on an appropriate date to find an end with a new and stronger mix of feeling that will tear her marriage apart. But these are the small things that make the novel predictable and also unpredictable since there will always be something to come after the ugly fight.

Spending time in the wrong place is just as dangerous as wasting it. Edna decided that her time was not worthwhile with her husband and decided to pursue another. So by looking at the way she chooses to spend time, we can see it will probably end by using the idea of "then means justify the ends." In this case, it's far easier since we have seen several other examples of this same story. But in general, the reason we read a novel like this is to see people spend their time in the wrong place and the wrong time which will lead to their doom. The idea of reading is all about time and how people are either caught in it, or how they choose to spend it and get caught in it as a result. So time is the very base in which they do things except that it is our choice on how to spend it. The only way in which it can no longer be there is by the person not being there and therefore not worrying about time. So by making the novel more predictable, the reader is given a future glimpse on how their time will be spent by reading. But if it is an unknown, they will just drop the book by the fear of having their time wasted. It is all about time.