Lost in a sea of women

Robert, a boy confused with what he wants in life, dedicates his summer to tail married women whom he finds interesting. His family was quite wealthy in the past, but economical difficulties forced them into converting their luxurious summer home into a summer lodgings for the visitors from the “Quartier Francais”

Robert is a dreamer, he dreams with travelling to Mexico and longs for the old days in which his family, but mostly, he dreams off having certain married women.  At the beginning it is clear that he wants Mrs. Pontellier by how he goes around with her all day, accompanying her to everyone single one of her activities, but further on in the book it is made clear that he is after a different woman every summer, “Since the age of fifteen Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of a fair dame or damsel”(PG 153).  Robert aches for the attentions of women, any woman, and his way of getting it is devoting himself to her completely.

This mans presence in the life of a character like Edna Pontellier will clearly be causing her mixed feelings and probably even problems in his married life.