Edna has a dinner party to express that she is leaving high society with a group of guests that were all in the high society. The dinner’s purpose was to show that she never really fit in with them. She is technically part of high society because she was married to Mr. Pontellier, but at the party, her party, she still felt like an outcast. The dinner party was filled with expensive decorations, she even changed the “ordinary stiff dining chairs” (87) with “the most commodious and luxurious” (87) chairs, hired music, and wore diamonds which her husband gave her in order to symbolize the society which she is leaving. No one even understands why she is leaving, which is another reason why she never belonged. The party is very much like one of