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Essay Archive - Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a work of fiction that tells the story of
Edna Pontellier, Southern wife and mother. This book presents the reader
with many tough questions and few answers. It is not hard to imagine why
this book was banished for decades not long after its initial publication
in 1899. At that time in history, women did just what they were expected to
do. They were expected to be good daughters, good wives, and good mothers.
A woman was expected to move from the protection of her father's roof to
the protection of her husband. Edna didn't fit this mold, and that
eventually leads her husband to s....
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