Hipster Parrot Being An Angry Bird Before It Was Mainstream

As the story progresses, there is a special weekend where a sort of party is held for the husbands that had come back from work. This meeting, arranged by Madame Leburn, mostly consisted of the families of the husbands having their children stay up past their bed times. This meeting ends up being more like a talent show than anything else as the children start doing their recitations and playing the piano. Of the children, some honorable mentions are the Farival twins who "were girls of fourteen, always clad in the Virgin's colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at their baptism" (52). They played a couple of duets in the piano probably making their parents proud, but what mostly stood out about their presentation was the interruption of the parrot shouting "Allez vous-en! Sapristi!" Phrase which, through the courtesy of Google Translate, translates to "Go Away! Damnit!" This parrot has said this before with little relevance and context but here must have a meaning or else it wouldn't be a reason to include it. The parrot seems to be bothered by these twins. Must be by how their fate was decided by their parents when they were still young. Their free will is oppressed by their parent's imposition of future as a nun. The twins grow up worrying more about becoming like the virgin rather than developing their own character. This sort of imprisonment made by their parents becomes apparent when everyone dances but the twins because they could not be convinced to separate as one dances with a man. They've become mechanical in a way. Only capable of what they've been taught to do.

Later on in the party, after the children had been sent to bed, there was some sort of piano concert held in the house. The one to play was Mademoiselle Reisz, a short tempered, older woman. Mrs. Pontellier, being used to listening to Madame Ratignolle practice in the mornings, was getting ready for the way she normally reacts to Ratignolle's piano playing, which is an image that symbolizes the feeling of the song. One of these images is that of a naked man standing next to the sore, staring out in a resigned way to a bird that flew away. This, combined with the title of the song "Solitude," makes an impression of someone giving in, letting go of everything, and accepting the cold embrace of solitude. Mrs. Pontellier, expecting the habitual, is shocked as she feels a surge of pure emotions that make tears fall from her eyes. This sort of awakening that brought to her attention an option of something other than the common and more beautiful adds to Mrs. Pontellier's strange behavior and keeps the story moving in interesting ways.