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Essay Archive - Edna's Suicide in The Awakening
Edna's Suicide in The Awakening
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, traditional women who, "...idolized their children,
worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it to a holy privilege to efface
themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels"( Chopin 51).
Edna wanted more, and as there were....
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