Kate Chopin's 1899 novel "The Awakening" explores Edna Pontellier's inner struggle and rejection of societal expectations for women, ending with her suicide by swimming into the sea.
Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening" (1899) portrays Edna Pontellier's internal rebellion against traditional roles, culminating in her death by drowning.
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| Back | novel Kate Chopin 1899 it's a study of the inner life and rebellion of Edna pontellior, the wife of a successful creole speculator in Louisiana she begins to flirt with Robert she begins to question the importance of the traditional role of a wife and mother at the end of the novel she swims far out to sea to her death |
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