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Essay Galaxy - 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, isnt 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 very few women at this time leading
the way to break these sorts of glass ceilings, Edna looked for women
within her life to model herself after.
Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, two women who also engage
in art, serv....
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