In The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses the motif of music to describe Edna’s desires of becoming more independent and her mind’s vivid imagery, which subsequently provides a foreshadow. During the party at Madame Lebrun’s home in Grand Isle, Edna breaks away from the party and steps out onto the porch where she is admiring the view of the sea. Eventually, Robert comes to join her and asks her if she’d like to listen to Mademoiselle Reisz play the piano. While he goes to find her, Chopin writes: “Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind,” and that, “One piece which that lady played Edna had entitled “Solitude”. It was a short, plaintive,minor strain...When she
