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A 5 page essay that discusses how Chopin used regional flavor and culture effectively in her novel. The writer argues that region plays a particularly important role in this work as this novel largely concerns the social, psychological and sexual repression of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, and the changes that she undergoes when she leaves the strict Protestantism of her father's Kentucky home for life with her new husband in New Orleans. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Pontellier, and the changes that she undergoes when she leaves the strict Protestantism of her fathers Kentucky home for life with her new husband in New Orleans. There is a
stark contrast between the two environments that has a profound effect on Edna. Chopin sets this narrative against a rich historical and cultural background, and it is this background
that largely initiates the changes in Edna that propel the action of the novel. Ednas husband, Leonce Pontellier comes from the rich New Orleans Creole culture of the
late nineteenth century, which "constituted a world unto itself -- a set of traditions, mores, and customs" unlike any other location in America at that time (Walker 67). This is
culture is more then simply a backdrop as it is sharply contrasted against the strict Protestant upbringing that Edna received in Kentucky. Walker argues that the novel is an
account, "at least in part," of the clash between the dominant southern culture in which Edna was reared and the New Orleans subculture in which she finds herself after her
marriage (67). Chopin places the beginning and ending of her novel on Grand Isle, a summer resort where New Orleans residents could almost completely escape disease-carrying mosquitoes. However, the
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that she is at odds with and
yet also attracted to (Walker 68). Chopin records that "Mrs. Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only
Creoles that summer at Lebruns. They all knew each other, and felt like one large family" (22). Edna is also struck by the Creoles entire lack of prudery (23).
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