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This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

In four pages this essay discusses Kate Chopin's novella in terms of how the protagonist develops throughout. There are 2 other s...

In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...