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A 5 page paper which examines
Edna’s visit to the home of Mademoiselle Reisz in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.” No
additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAreisz.rtf
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who live within them. One of the environments we are provided with in the story is that of Mademoiselle Reisz. In the following paper we examine the character of Reisz
and then examine her environment. The paper then discusses this environment in relationship to other environments and also discusses Ednas reaction to Mademoiselles home. Mademoiselle Reisz At first
notice we see that Edna is not fond of Mademoiselle Reisz. "She was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost every one, owing to a
temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others" (Chopin Chapter IX). In terms of physical description we see that "She was a homely woman,
with a small weazened face and body and eyes that glowed. She had absolutely no taste in dress, and wore a batch of rusty black lace with a bunch
of artificial violets pinned to the side of her hair" (Chopin Chapter IX). However, the character of the woman became incredibly powerful when she played the piano. "The very
first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontelliers spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding
truth" (Chopin Chapter IX). Whatever the case, what she saw were not material pictures of her imagination, "But the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing
it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. She trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her" (Chopin Chapter IX). Reisz patted Edna on the shoulder
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