Birds and the Impromptu
From this, I was able to find an important correlation between the bird and the impromptu. Impromptu is a variation of an original musical piece which breaks the tradition. For that reason, it often faces rejection or criticisms from society. For example, Django Gold of the Onion wrote that "Jazz might be the stupidest thing anyone ever came up with." He criticized Jazz for its improvisation, describing the improvisation of the Jazz band as "The band starts a song, but then everything falls apart and the musicians just play whatever they want for as long as they can stand it. People take turns noodling around, and once they run out of ideas and have to stop, the audience claps. I'm getting angry just thinking about it."
A bird that Reiz refers to also tries to soar above the tradition and prejudice which requires strong wings since it will confront difficulties for sure. This consequently leads to the conclusion that a bird is the same as the inspiration that ignites the impromptu, the symbol for Edna’s awakening. This makes more sense when we read the last chapter of the book, where Edna sees a bird with a broken wing falling from the sky and down to the ocean and Edna kills herself in the ocean. This shows that as the bird-the inspiration which started Edna’s awakening-falls, Edna herself becomes unable to sustain her awakening and chooses death as well, just like the impromptu ended when its musical inspiration cannot be sustained any longer.
