Analysis Of Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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In the book, The Awakening, Kate Chopin addresses a common struggles woman face in society through the main character Edna Pontellier during the 1800s. Edna Pontellier is an American woman infused with charm and grace. Edna’s charm could not escape her. She moved gracefully among the crowds and appeared self-contained. Edna learned to master her feeling by not showing outward and spoken feelings of affections, either in herself or in others. This type of behavior appears common in society and understood within Edna’s the marriage relationship with her husband. However, one summer while vacationing at the Grand Isle, the reserved manner Edna always enveloped began to loosen a little and her soul began to awaken. That summer, a young man named …show more content…

Edna’s giving a farewell dinner before leaving represents a pinnacle moment for Edna. The farewell dinner signifies the shackles of her marriage life being broken and the celebration of her new life without children or husband. At the dinner, Edna celebrates her new-found freedom by wearing the finest jewelry that her husband gave her, serving the best food to her guest, and decorating the house to create a grand magical moment. Above all, she bills this very expensive dinner party to her husband to spite him. Edna continues to rebel against her husband. Her actions in these two phrases demonstrate her casting off all her allegiance to …show more content…

Also, by completing this project, I have learned you cannot label words out of context to determine its meaning and part of speech. Likewise, when I chose the novel The Awakening, I just picked a sentence that met the 50-word requirement for this assignment. When reading the sentence out of the context of the novel, the meaning of the words in the sentence meant something totally different. Again, this project really has taught me to examine words and sentences in the larger context in order to define the meaning and function. Although I have started to grow gray hair from doing this project, I enjoyed the lesson of wrestling with words in real sentences from a living books. Like Edna, my soul awakens to a new outlook on doing grammar. Kate Chopin’s writing style helped me understand how grammar makes meaning in a sentence, the relationship between words and meaning, and the connection between the structure and meaning of a

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