Summary Of The Awakening By Kate Chopin

The book that I chose to read is called “The Awakening” By Kate Chopin. In this book one of the main characters was Edna Pontellier. Edna is married to Leonce Pontellier, together they have two sons. Mr. Pontellier, who works in the city of New Orleans is often away at work. In the beginning of the book the family is away on vacation in Grand isle. While in Grand Isle Mrs. Pontellier meets a young man named Robert Lebrun. As the book goes on you see the two spending a lot of time together at the beach. It is no secret that the two have feelings for each other. Throughout the book we see that Mrs.Pontellier has many affairs with several different men while her husband is away. Mrs. Pontellier even admits that she didn’t marry Leonce out …show more content…
At one of the visits Mademoiselle mentions to Edna that Robert had written to her. After finding out that Robert had written to Mademoissle instead of her made her jealous. At first, Mademoiselle was not going to let Edna read the letter but after lots of begging she finally gave it to Edna to read. In the letter Robert was asking all about Mrs. Pontellier. During another visit Mademoiselle tells Edna Robert is coming back but she isn’t sure when he is coming. After finding out the news that Robert was coming back Edna completely changed her mood and was back to her normal ways which was happy. One day while sitting at Mademoiselle Reisz apartment waiting for her to come home Edna heard someone come in the door, expecting it to be Mademoiselle she turns around and to her surprise she sees Robert standing at the …show more content…
After they get to talking Robert tells Edna that he has been home two days which upsets her that he hadn’t visited her yet. Edna has Robert walk her how and once they arrived she invited him to stay for supper. Robert at first tried coming up with excuses for not staying but eventually gives in to her. After Robert leaves they don’t see each other for several days until one day when they ran into each other at a café! Again, Robert walks Edna home and instead of Edna having to invite him to stay he stayed without her asking. While they were sitting at her house talking Edna gets up and kisses Robert. Robert then grabbed Edna tight and just held her for a moment. Finally after letting go Robert tells her that the reason he has been trying to distance himself from her is because she isn’t available, she is a married woman. Edna tells Robert that she is free and is nobodies property and that he is who she wants to be with. They both then confess their love for each other. Alcee Arobin comes over to deliver the message from Madame Ratignolle that she is sick and needs her to visit. Robert begs her not to leave but Edna feels that she has to, while leaving she begs Robert to wait for