Desire In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Awakening

Rosa never saw Jasper as a potential lover and that is what aggravated him. All of his powers, including those mesmeric ones, were of no avail, she did not let him posses her. Therefore he was condemned to hide his love for her from Edwin, to hide his sinister side from the world, and his secret about killing Edwin, as well. All these lies and hiding take their toll on him mentally so much that he finally finds it harder and harder to keep everything inside. The loss of control is clear from the way he looks and talks to her. The desire in him is so maniacal that the manifestation of his love frightens her as demonstrated by her bursting into tears because she cannot endure his devouring gaze anymore. At the beginning of the novel Rosa was