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The Awakening Edna Pontellier is a poor self-centered girl with no idea that actions she takes not only affect her but the people around her as well. The author Kate Chopin makes this evident in the way she portrays Edna’s character. “…Chopin asserts the possibilities that The Awakening denied: sex, even outside marriage, can be enjoyed without personal guilt…”(Anne Goodwyn Jones 141). Kate Chopin shows this part of Edna several times in the novel. Back when this novel takes place, it was accustomed for the wife in a household to basically not think, but instead to listen to what the husband tells her to do. “She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.”(Chopin 27). This comment occurs when Edna is asked to come inside the house at night by Mr. Pontellier but she refuses to, and so he demands that she come inside. This is a big turning point in the novel, when Edna begins her spur of the moment decisions.
Approximate Word count = 618
Approximate Pages = 2.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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