This is a look at 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin. When you first look at the life of Edna you think there is not much to discuss. Edna is a married woman who at first seems vaguely satisfied with her life--'she grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.' (Chopin, 558).         Edna doesn't know what she …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…wants. In the time period we are talking about she would have been ostracized by society if she and Robert were to be together. The only solution she sees is to commit suicide. That would not happen in this day and time either, because she would have been able to get a divorce and marry Robert with no special stigma. Edna could not get what she thought she wanted and ended up with no responsibilities.