Essay Archive - The Awakening: Edna
The Awakening: Edna
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 trace of passion
or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening
its dissolution." (Chopin, 558).
Edna doesn't know what she wants from life. It is evident from the way
she tries to change her life to make it better, that....
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