The Awakening: Edna Pontellier's Spiritual Awakening Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening relates the emotion-driven story of Edna Pontellier. Her story is a happy one. Not because of some typical fairy tale ending where they all live happily ever after, but in that she accomplished her goal in life. She never “sacrifice[d] herself for her children.” (p. 115) Edna Pontellier remained an individual. She achieved her goal of being a free spirit through her death. To Mrs. Pontellier, “the children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days.” This is the complete opposite of what she wanted her relationship with her children to be. She was willing to do anything for her children, except give h....

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