Suicide was typical of Edna because she always did things in a hurry and never stopped to think about the consequences. Edna had said at one point in the novel that she would need to evaluate her life and see what type of person she was (in the hopes that she could try to change some of the bad ones). “One of these days,” she said, “I am going to pull myself together for a moment and think, try to determine what character of a woman I am; because, frankly, I don't know. codes that I know, I am a diabolically wicked specimen of sex. But somehow I can't convince myself that I need to think about it.