Edna's process of awakening occurs when she attempts to translate her re-birth into actual realities in life. Before her awakening, Edna she is torn between her desire for self-discovery and realities of life as a Victorian woman. In her first major awakening, Edna awakens to self-awareness. In this case, it is the combination of baptismal swim and music that act as catalysts to her awakening. In Grand isle, both society and nature appear to endorse the process of self-transformation in life, the sea acts as a catalyst for sensuality and liberating freedom. Edna’s second awakening occurs when she engages in sexual affair, as she explores herself sexually and creatively, and this, represents a socially observable act of her freedom and defiance
