The Awakening: Edna
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This is a look at "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. When you first look
at the life of Edna you think there is not much to discuss. Edna is a married
woman who at first seems vaguely satisfied with her life--"she grew fond of her
husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trac ....
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sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern
day. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why, when it did
not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be dead or alive; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
Pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable
annihilation. (Chopin, 588)
Edna struggled to make her life more fulfilling. Edna wanted what?
Passion, excitement? She states to the Doctor, "But I don ....
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