Thesis: In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the author produces the differentiating characters of Adele and Mademoiselle Reisz to highlight Edna's options of whom she wants to be defined as a woman in her current society.
First paragraph: Character foil between Edna and Adele. Adele is the image of a perfect society wife and mother, just like one that would be expected in the current time period. In one of the first scenes that the reader sees Adele, she is portrayed as a “mother-women” (11). The qualities that coincide with a “mother-woman” are nurturing, loving, caring, the qualities that one would want to see in a wife and mother in this society. Later towards the end of the page Mrs. Chopin says, “In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman”
First paragraph: Character foil between Edna and Adele. Adele is the image of a perfect society wife and mother, just like one that would be expected in the current time period. In one of the first scenes that the reader sees Adele, she is portrayed as a “mother-women” (11). The qualities that coincide with a “mother-woman” are nurturing, loving, caring, the qualities that one would want to see in a wife and mother in this society. Later towards the end of the page Mrs. Chopin says, “In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman”