Article Critique of The Awakening
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In Katie Chopin’s The Awakening, Edna is referred to as “his wife” or “Mrs.
of married women of the time, Edna is an extension of her husband, and has no thoughts
or actions independent of him or her role as wife and mother. When she is relieved of the
burden of living day to day with a husband and children, Edna has the freedom from
bondage to experience an awakening of her own when she becomes the focus of her own
thoughts and reflections. As though an inner light was beginning to glow, a feeling
unfamiliar and foreign ...
