Robert is a quite interesting character. You know, little young, flirty boy. He is much attached to Edna Pontellier during the summer and somehow unexpectedly even to him, and he grows quite in love with her. He tries to make some distance from her by going to another place called Vera Cruz, and he tries to be honorable but not always he is succeeded. He tried to escape from these feelings as nothing can happen between them. Did he reach? Well, find it out after reading.
Robert Lebrun in the Essays