awakening, attempts to wake her own society up to the beauty of an independent woman. However, Louisiana was not very receptive, just as Edna's culture does not accept Edna's change. The first indication that Edna is not cut out to be the perfect Creole housewife occurs through Edna's conflicts with her husband, Leonce... ... middle of paper ... ...orks Cited Hart, Kelly. "The Pontellier Children." University of North Carolina. http://www.masslinks.com/~stardog/12.html. 1998.
entire becoming clandestine. (A Thousand Plateaus 188) Finally, the sea is a common trope for mother, and maternal—that from which life springs. We are presented with Edna running away from Protestant society (the dynamo, the father) to Catholic Creole society (the earth-goddess transformed into the Madonna). She runs away from her father, and there is no mother for her to run towards except the archetypal sea. If these mythic formations say anything, the novel says something about Edna’s own lost
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