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A 20 page research paper on Kate Chopin's turn of the century novel, The Awakening, which challenged society's concepts of what a wife and mother should be. The story, which tells of a young woman's search for identity and her sexual awakening, shocked the country and seriously damaged its author's career. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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and seriously damaged its authors career. The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, can still make students in college courses become "visibly angry and particularly outspoken over Ednas inattention to and apparent disinterest
in her children" (Stipe 16). Ednas search for self-discovery and self-expression in The Awakening leads eventually to her suicide. There has been a great deal written pertaining to exactly
what compelled Edna to this act of desperation. An examination of scholarly opinion, as well as Chopins text, will reveal that Ednas last act was a culmination of several factors.
The complex cultural tapestry that Chopin creates in this work does not lend itself to simplistic answers as to Ednas motivation. As this examination will show, Ednas suicide was
the result of complex cultural forces, of which her awakened sexual identity was only a part. The Awakening?a brief synopsis of the plot The Awakening begins by introducing the
readers to Mrs. Pontellier, who is vacationing on the resort island of Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico. There are numerous other families on the island, and Edna observes
these wives with their children. Edna is emphatically not a "not a mother-woman" (Mahon 228; Chopin 19). She recognizes these women, who "idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed
it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels" in their service (Chopin 19). She also recognized that she was not one of them.
Later in the novel, as she begins to assert her autonomy, "Mrs. Pontellier" will be referred to simply as "Edna" (Stipe 16). Mr. Pontellier, the narrator informs the
reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely Ednas resistance to the role of being her husbands possession, as
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