Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
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The novel, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin is set in the late
nineteenth century, in Louisiana. This is a place and time for women to
submit themselves to the wants and needs of husbands and families. The
protagonist, Edna Pontellier, isn’t content with being a mother-woman, one
of the ordinary, ....
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.... Reisz as the old, unmarried, childless, musician who devoted
her life to music, rather than a man. Feeling that neither of their
lifestyles were suitable and lacking the ability to create a model of her
own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or ....
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