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shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...

In nine pages this research paper compares these two works in terms of how they represent free will and determinism philosophies. ...

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

In six pages this essay offers a critique of the once scandalous novel of the late nineteenth century. Five sources are cited in ...

publicly punished for it, while no one ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is carefu...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

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...

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, ...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

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...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

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

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

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 sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

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...

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...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

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...

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

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...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...