Edna

“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…

questioning of the way they could live their lives. In the novella, The Awakening, Kate Chopin portrays the way that Edna defies social convention on what women’s role in society should be and reaches and ultimate awakening at the end of the novella. In the beginning of the novella, Chopin shows that Edna does not conform to the standards of what women’s roles should…

A poet who explored the effect grief has on people like Sheehan, was Edna St. Vincent Millay. She was a poet from Rockland, Maine. She was born on February 22, 1892 into a very female-powerful home. Her mother asked her father to leave the home and encouraged her daughters to be ambitious and self sufficient. Millay got a scholarship to Vassar for her poem “Renascence” where she wrote even more poetry. The same year she graduated, 1917, she published her first book, Renascence and Other Poems.…

“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…

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 complete family unit with their abuser; therefore they choose to stay with their abuser instead of having the freedom and individuality each person deserve. Edna realized that it is nice to live, but it’s not worth…

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…

Edna beings her story as an obedient, quiet, and tame wife and mother. She has never thought twice about the way that her husband, Mr. Pontellier, speaks to her and treats her. This holds true until one late night when Mr. Pontellier accuses her of being a bad mother; after this occurs, she is left wondering how she has never felt oppressed by her husband before and why his actions effect her in a new way this night. Though Edna is literally surrounded by darkness, she is just starting to see…

A character wants to have a new desirable life. But all of that is being sunken down by society and men’s view plus personality. That is how Edna feels throughout out her marriage life. In The Awakening, the male characters viewed Edna from a different perspective from a good relationship, to ones that is not working for her. Also, they all treated her in different ways that affected her life as a curse if it was not for them. Leonce Pontellier, Edna’s husband, is the first male character…

12.4 Edna, Lesbian Employee (Carr-Ruffino, pg 500). What surface problems do you notice? What are the underlying root problems? What actions would you recommend Edna to take? Create your discussion using the 4 key steps of a Case Study: Step 1: Identify surface problems, Step 2: Ask Why-Why to get root problem, Step 3: Generate solutions, and Step 4: Take action or make recommendations. Provide solid support for those recommendations. Step 1: Identify surface problems The problem is that Edna…

named Edna Pontellier. She has a husband and two little boys. As the book progresses Mrs. Pontellier strays away from her husband. She starts to fall for a different man named Robert Lebrun. Throughout the book Mrs. Pontellier tries her best to be closer to Robert. However many different things block Edna from being with Robert Lebrun. Mrs. Pontellier dreams about being with Robert. However Robert leaves for Mexico before Mrs. Pontellier can tell him how she feels. After Robert leaves Edna meets…