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the awakening
Title: the awakening
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1730 | Pages: 7.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
the awakening
The novel, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin is set in the late nineteenth century, in
Louisiana. This is a place and time for women to submit themselves to the wants and
needs of husbands and families. The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, isn’t content with being
a mother-woman, one of the ordinary, traditional women who, "...idolized their children,
worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it to a holy privilege to efface themselves as
individuals and grow wings …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1730 total…was nothing for her to do but end her life. If Edna had been born in a different time and
had been faced with the same situation, it would have been a different story.
works cited
Hollister, Michael. “Chopin’s The Awakening.” The Explicator 51.1 (1993) : 90-92
Showalter, Elaine. Sister’s Choice: Tradition and change in American Women’s Writing.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Spangler, George. “Ways of Interpreting Edna’s Suicide.” Kate Chopin Study Text
Online. Neal Wyatt, 1993.
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