A Review Of Kate Chopin's The Awakening

The Awakening is certainly a book made for a specific group of people. Those people ostensibly being older women approximately somewhere around their mid-thirties or just older women in general based on the topics that were discussed in the book. Particularly the topic of a married woman falling in love with a younger man her husband is well acquainted with, these types of topics are usually found in love novels made for older women that usually have quite a bit of time on their hands or nothing better to read. The author of this book, Kate Chopin, presumably wrote this book for the main reason of just simply to write a book about women being empowered and being able to have their own independence regardless of what others might think. Whilst I had read The Awakening I had noticed that Edna Pontellier was quite different from the other mothers and women on Grand Isle. Even though this is not …show more content…
I had realized that Edna almost had no regard for her own two children when she had admitted her belief of not even sacrificing her own self for them if it would have come to it. This belief of hers comes to play in the ending of her story when she essentially drowns herself in the ocean because she could not provide for her children. By her doing this though, she made somewhat of a paradox because she did exactly what she said she wouldn't do for them leaving unanswered questions that the reader will never get the answers to. Subsequently, I was reminded of the great feeling of being able to triumph all during the section of the book when Enda had ultimately learned to swim. This section of the book is important and plays a major role in the story because it is representing Edna's power to gain control of her own self and accomplish wonderful things. The ocean also plays a significant part in the story by creating the beginning and end of Edna Pontellier's