“The Awakening” In the story “The Awakening”, Chopin uses metaphors to relate her character towards the end of the novel. She uses built emotion to express the feeling and entrapment that eventually lead to a fatal conclusion. Describing the character begins in a downward spiral into the rebirth of her mind, finally ending in a sensual re-awakening when the character realizes what fear is, but also what strengths she had. “A bird with a broken …showed first 75 words of 398 total…

…showed last 75 words of 398 total…received from any male relationship. It’s related to a sense of being free, feeling unbound by social restriction or emotional confliction. Are relationships so constricted that one must die in order to live? Overall, her relation of emotions through Edna may give us insight on the writer as well. She relates very well as failing emerges into a mental awakening, finally into a total emotional rebirth as the character finds her self. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**