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A 3 page paper which examines the themes of water, clothing and the bird in the ending of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. No additional sources cited.
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place in society. It is very much a feminist novel in many respects as the woman is trapped by the constraints of motherhood and being a wife. But, it is
also a story about being human and needing more from life in relationship to finding a place and an identity. The main character, Edna, is unable to find her place
or her true identity and ultimately commits suicide. The following paper examines the themes, or symbolic nature, of three elements at the end of the novel; water, clothing and the
bird. The paper examines how these images are reflective of her impending death. Themes in The Awakening In the beginning of the segment to be discussed the narrator
states how "The water of the Gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun" (Chopin XXXIX). In this one can envision how it is a
seemingly endless and powerfully beautiful entity; the water. It calls to her in a "seductive" manner and invites her perhaps, giving her hope that at last she will find her
place, in death. It invites "the soul to wander in abysses of solitude" (Chopin XXXIX). And, the fact that the narrator notes how "All along the white beach, up and
down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water (Chopin XXXIX).
This is also reflected in the bird she immediately sees after noting that no living thing was on the beach. The narrator indicates how "A bird with
a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water" (Chopin XXXIX). Throughout the book there were images of birds such as a
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