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This 14 page paper discusses the roles and struggles of women in the novels "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner and "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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characters. This paper discusses the portrayal of women in the books. Overview Edna Pontellier is the protagonist of The Awakening, and in many ways this is a far easier book
to examine. The events unfold in a linear fashion, and although Edna is extremely complex, we are not burdened by the additional task of trying to keep up with a
convoluted timeline or four different narrators, as we are in Faulkner. But we can draw one immediate parallel: all the women are either unpleasant, unruly or end badly. This may
go back to the fact that until recently, censors and the public demanded that evil be punished: the "anti-hero" of films and literature is a relatively recent invention. At the
time these books were written, at least in the case of the Chopin, it was expected that wrong-doers would be punished. In taking her fate into her own hands, Edna
broke the rules of society and paid with her life. Its much more difficult to summarize The Sound and the Fury, because its told from four different viewpoints. The one
person we would really like to hear from, Caddy, doesnt narrate any of the book, and yet she is the driving force behind the action; it is really her story
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on others to tell us about her. Like
Edna, she ends badly because she too broke the rules. Lets begin with Faulkner, since were already there. The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury chronicles the
decline of the Compsons, "a once noble southern family descended from civil war hero General Compson. The family falls victim to those vices which Faulkner believed were responsible for the
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