The Awakening Since the feminist movement between the 1960s and 1970s, many scholars 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. The short story “The Awakening” has a specific symbolism that has a lot of meaning throughout the story. 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 the opening scene has more to do with Edna Pontellier, who is not even present. Just as the parrot speaks an
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Edna, however, responds that she is thinking of "nothing" and then observes that this is the standard reply one makes to such a question. When Edna finally begins to address Adèle's question, Adèle interrupts and dismisses the need, for an answer: "Oh! Never mind! ... It is really too hot to think, especially to think about thinking". Toward the end of the novel when Edna reflects on her life, she remembers a conversation between herself and Adèle in which the problem of speaking but not communicating is again evident: "Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for any one. Then had followed a rather heated argument; the two women did not appear to understand each other or to be talking the same language. Edna tried to settle her friend, to explain”. Unable to communicate well with their thoughts and emotions, both women sound just like the parrot, which speaks an irrational language, and the mockingbird, which insists on its way in the opening scene. The birds and the type of species indicate how to understand the characters feelings and getting to know the problem of the characters in the story. Including these birds in the story have a strong bond with the characters and was well
Edna, however, responds that she is thinking of "nothing" and then observes that this is the standard reply one makes to such a question. When Edna finally begins to address Adèle's question, Adèle interrupts and dismisses the need, for an answer: "Oh! Never mind! ... It is really too hot to think, especially to think about thinking". Toward the end of the novel when Edna reflects on her life, she remembers a conversation between herself and Adèle in which the problem of speaking but not communicating is again evident: "Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for any one. Then had followed a rather heated argument; the two women did not appear to understand each other or to be talking the same language. Edna tried to settle her friend, to explain”. Unable to communicate well with their thoughts and emotions, both women sound just like the parrot, which speaks an irrational language, and the mockingbird, which insists on its way in the opening scene. The birds and the type of species indicate how to understand the characters feelings and getting to know the problem of the characters in the story. Including these birds in the story have a strong bond with the characters and was well