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other women authors were writing much better books, well before Kate Chopin wrote this. I found the book to be incredibly. Just not interesting. The prose is bland, the characters are rather flat. boring. I understand, the significance of it in regards to the time it was written, but really.
However, since we are aware of the disease today, readers should avoid admiring Edna's behavior and concern receiving mental help if they find their thought processes mirroring hers. When she began to describe her children as demons possessing her soul, I came to the obvious conclusion that illness Edna suffered from was Paranoid Schizophrenia. While I must admit that her lack of love for her children turned her into a character I could never like, she's not even a well composed character in her unlikeableness. I am not going to criticize the book for being boring or the protagonist for being immoral, but I would like it if readers would note that the true awakening of Edna involved her death and avoid from recommending it to their friends as a good example of a woman learning how to live her life. The question I found myself pondering was: is she ****ing delusional. Please tell me this: what sort of feminist commits suicide after losing the man she loves.
When taken into consideration the fact that she commits suicide right after he leaves her, one is forced to conclude that her short rejection of her feelings is nothing more than denial. Since there was no knowledge of such a disease in Chopin's time, it makes sense that she might have created this character and thought her to be rational, if she based the character off of someone she had met. Now I know that Edna mentions that Robert was merely symbolic of her freedom, rather than someone she cared about, but consider it my way. She hasn't seen her husband for months, has moved out of his house, has taken a new lover, hasn't seen her children for weeks, didn't even have to see her children when they lived together since she had a nursemaid, and clearly isn't only selfish, but is also mentally ill. In some cases, espousing suicide is illegal and I would hate for anyone on here to be arrested for encouraging someone to commit suicide. Her rejection of her love for Robert lasted for a small paragraph, and seems especially ridiculous when compared to her time spent mooning over him--roughly seven-eights of the book.
Near the end, before committing suicide, she claims that her reason for such a dramatic act is to escape the control her husband and children have upon her.
A high class seller amazons 1 seller greatttttttttttt. Also what is great is when you email the seller they never email you back and then all of a sudden get it a month later when you have a class 20 days after you bought it and then couldn't do your homework. I bought my book on jan 4 and didn't get it till the 2nd of feb. It apparently takes a month to send it across two states.
The only thing that makes this underdeveloped novella worth reading today is knowing what era the author was from and the impact it made with her peers when this story was released. The storyline is really very mild for today's readers. Were it published today it would quickly disappear into oblivion. The Awakening is a novella about a young married woman in New Orleans during the late 1800s who suddenly develops a taste for freedom - to make her own decisions and live with the consequences. An exciting concept only because of the setting.
Who's going to write it. An interesting portrayal of how non-traditionalwomen seem to have no options. Awaiting themodern day version.
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