Edna, Texas

Main Characters Edna Pontellier: The mother of two kids and the wife of Léonce Pontellier, Edna is a woman who does not want to conform to the Creole society's standards towards women. Throughout the book she struggles with her inner desires after falling in love with Robert Lebrun. She battles with the maternal responsibility to care for her family and children or to pursue her happiness and love. Léonce Pontellier: The father of two kids and the husband of Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier is a Creole man who enjoys the extravagance of the elite class. He is a very traditional, and authoritative man who would like to maintain a stable household where the mother (Edna) cares for the kids and keeps her job as a receptionist. Robert Lebrun:…

Throughout the story Edna Pontieller expresses her progress, in The Awakening, as a new woman by using the symbolism of the caged birds, art and music, houses, and the sea. From the very beginning of the story, the caged birds play a main role in symbolizing Edna’s entrapment. In the book the parrots kept repeating ““ Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right!”” (1.) Which in English means, “Go away! Go away! For heaven’s sake!” They said it in a language nobody could understand,…

“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin is a novella about a married woman, Edna, who realizes that she is unsatisfied with her life. Chopin wrote this in a period where feminist ideas were just starting to appear, but it was still a world where women were expected to be married, be mothers, and stay in the home. Margo Culley writes her essay on the novella in a period where feminism in is its third wave; where women are focused on individual identity, diversity, and breaking stereotypes . Culley, a…

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” says Vicki Harrison, the author of Dressed to Thrill. Learning to swim is something that almost anyone can accomplish. Much like swimming in the ocean, no matter how overwhelming it can become, everyone can learn to cope with their grief. For the main character in A Christmas Carol, however, he strives to take on his grief without learning…

If you take Edna’s statement for face value you may not think it makes sense, but in reality it makes perfect sense. The concept I grasp from Edna’s statement is that she is not opposed to losing her life for her kids; however she refused not to live her life for anyone. Edna just want her identity separated from anyone else’s. After reading the statement I correlated Edna to women who experience domestic violence. Some domestic violence victims who have financial stability, social status or a…

Edna seems to be rather ‘wild’, unpredictable, careless, and unashamed of her actions. At first she seemed like a pretty normal person, but over the course of the summer something changed her greatly. She abandoned her household and wifely duties, with the excuse that she wanted to paint. While her husband is caring and sensible, he fails to understand her odd and offensive ways and leaves for a while. While he is gone she falls in love with Alcee, who adores her. She even moved out of their old…

Throughout this book, there are many examples of different kind of awakenings, starting off with Edna awakening herself as an artist when she begins her painting career, here realization that she appreciates the music up to the point until she wakens to kind herself unfulfilled. Edna is not only waking up to understand herself as a human beings, and a woman who is not happy in a mans world he also awakens herself as a sexual being. For this essay I am going to focus on the stages that Edna has…

Awakening by Kate Chopin centers on the Pontellier family – Leonce, his wife Edna, and their two sons, Etienne and Raoul – residing in New Orleans during the end of the 19th century. The family spends their summer vacationing on Grand Isle at a resort ran by Madame Lebrun and her two sons, Robert and Victor. During this time, Edna’s emotions begin to shift as she wrestles with her traditional patriarchy duties and her desire for social freedom. Upon the families return to New Orleans, Edna…

inside him. Demian gives him a kiss on the lips and says it’s from Frau Eva and vanishes into the darkness. In this story, Campbell hints at women being objects but comes to the conclusion that they are more as the woman in this story saves the protagonists. In the book, The Awakening, the women are very objectified. Through the story a woman named Edna struggles to find her place in life as she gets tired of just being an object to her husband and kids. When the book first starts, Edna is a…

It is analyzed that throughout history that women have been held up to expectations that cause them to be treated as inferior to men. Literature often highlights the pressure women have felt and still feel today from society’s unattainable expectation. These women that defy the limitations society sets for them are some of the most powerful, strong role models for young women today. When comparing the two works The Awakening by and A Doll House by, Nora demonstrates strength that is greater than…