Edna Pontellier: An Unhappy Woman

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The paper discusses the character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening". The paper compares her character to those of the other female characters, Mademoiselle Reisz and Madame Lebrun.

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"Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a archetypical unconventional woman that appears in so many other works of Chopin's. Edna symbolizes a caged woman who finds freedom and holds on to it for dear life. But is she a unique figure? In the story, she might be but not in Chopin's works. Chopin's women are usually characterized by a sincere desire to seek their own identity and they want freedom badly. Most of them are suffering in institutionalized marriages and seek freedom with desperation."

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