Comparing Society And Society In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Also, Daisy will not let any men tell her what to do, she says to Winterbourne “I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do” (Daisy miller, p. 79-80). She is clearly all about her own things and does not want anyone to interfere with her own doings like European society is doing to her. The thing is, the society in Europe is interfering with everything she does. Mrs. Miller is stating that it is a “scandal” (91) that daisy is such a flirt, she warns Winterbourne to stop talking to Daisy, so that she does not have the “opportunity to expose herself” (91) more than she already did in public. In this story, it is a different type of tension than with “Bartleby, the scrivener”. It does not still imply an individual versus a society, but it can show how different the American Society and the European society is different from one another which, in this case, created some tensions between these two. Daisy was a rebel American girl who …show more content…
It is a story where a woman named Edna is not really happy with the way her life is going. She wants to be free and capable of doing whatever she wants to do. She comes across Adèle which is the perfect nineteenth-century woman, she is a stay at home mom taking care of her family. Edna realizes that it is not what she wants, to stay at home with children. After that, she meets Madame Reisz who is a single and a free woman, she is a musician and does what she wants. Edna than realizes that she does not want to be alone, but she does want the freedom that comes with it. She meets another man named Robert and falls in love with him. Her husband Leonce Pontellier is the typical nineteenth-century man, he only thinks about himself and does not care what his wife does as long as she is cooking and taking care of the house. Suicide takes her away from her real awakening, where she realizes that she is not happy in that type of