Read the excerpt from chapter 1 of the awakening. he walked down the gallery and across the narrow "bridges" which connected the lebrun cottages one with the other. he had been seated before the door of the main house. the parrot and the mockingbird were the property of madame lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. mr pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining. which best explains why the author includes the parrot and the mockingbird in her description of the main house