The Awakening In today’s society the feminist movement has improved since the 1960s and 1970s.Many scholars and critics have showed much interest to Kate Chopin’s literature. This particular story shows a life of a married woman and the struggles of her family, husband and her desires for love and freedom she has long been searching for. The short story “The Awakening” has a symbolism throughout, but there is one particular one that is very important to the story in order to understand the characters. Chopin begins the novel with a scene of a parrot. In the academic journal of "The Awakening and A Lost Lady: Flying with Broken Wings and Raked Feathers” by Elizabeth expresses the birds as a way to look deeply into the characters. In the beginning of the story we can analyzed that the parrot and Edna have some sort of relationship. Just as the parrot speaks understanding the languages spoken, Edna can comprehend what Léonce her husband
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Therefore, while Edna comprehends both English and French she is weak in understanding Creole social customs as her husband .Edna does understand Léonce at times, but just as the mockingbird may understand the parrot, Edna does not alter her song, just as the mockingbird does not alter his "whistling with maddening persistence". Finally, we can conclude that the birds represent Edna's conflict with Léonce, Robert, and society. They also indicate Edna's position in society and her relationship with her husband . Although Edna discovers difficulty in understanding the social values, she also learns that language fails her as she attempts to communicate with Adèle. For instance, at the beginning of the story; when her friend Adele are on the beach, Adele asks her was she is thinking. Edna's physical appearance proposes that she is belligerent with her thoughts. For instance when the story mentions, "Adèle had been watching with a little amused attention, arrested by the absorbed expression which seemed to have seized
Therefore, while Edna comprehends both English and French she is weak in understanding Creole social customs as her husband .Edna does understand Léonce at times, but just as the mockingbird may understand the parrot, Edna does not alter her song, just as the mockingbird does not alter his "whistling with maddening persistence". Finally, we can conclude that the birds represent Edna's conflict with Léonce, Robert, and society. They also indicate Edna's position in society and her relationship with her husband . Although Edna discovers difficulty in understanding the social values, she also learns that language fails her as she attempts to communicate with Adèle. For instance, at the beginning of the story; when her friend Adele are on the beach, Adele asks her was she is thinking. Edna's physical appearance proposes that she is belligerent with her thoughts. For instance when the story mentions, "Adèle had been watching with a little amused attention, arrested by the absorbed expression which seemed to have seized