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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
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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, t ....
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....ried and pregnant, but Edna does not follow Adele’s footsteps. For
Edna, Adele appears unable to perceive herself as an individual human being.
She possesses no sense of herself beyond her role as wife and mother, and
therefore Adele exists only in relation to her family, not in relation to
herself or the world. Edna respects art, but does not respect Adele’s
reasoning for playing the piano, “She was keeping up her music on account
of the children, she said: because she and her husband both cons.... |
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