Arobin says that Mademoiselle Reisz is crazy, but Edna says she thinks Mademoiselle Reisz to be wonderfully sane. Edna and Arobin kiss passionately. After Arobin leaves after they have sex Edna is flooded with a variety of emotions. She feels a little regretful because her first truly passionate experience had been with a man Arobin , for whom she feels no real love.
Edna starts packing to move into her new small house. She packs as quickly as she can, and is in the process of taking a picture off the wall when Arobin comes over. Edna admits that it is her twenty-ninth birthday, and they all admire the diamonds that her husband has sent and which she is wearing in her hair. Edna and her guests chatter happily, but as the evening progresses, Edna feels dread and depression coming over her.
The guests leave and Edna is left alone with Arobin. Edna locks the doors of the big house, and Arobin walks with her to her new, small house she calls it the "pigeon house" , which is just around the corner. Edna and Arobin have sex again.
Edna likes living in the small house and after several days there, she feels happier and decides to go visit her children in Iberville. Edna has a wonderful time with her children, and she tells them about the new small house. After a week, Edna goes back home, and by the time she reaches home, she feels alone again. Edna goes to visit Mademoiselle Reisz, but when she arrives at the house, no one is home.
She knows where the key is kept, however, so she lets herself inside to wait. As she waits, Edna reflects upon her promise to Adele, who is going to give birth any day now.
Edna promised to be with Adele during the delivery. It is Robert. Edna gets up to leave. Robert walks her home, and when they get to the house, Edna invites him to stay for dinner. Edna and Robert eat dinner together. Edna feels jealous over an embroidered tobacco pouch that a woman in Mexico made for Robert. When Arobin drops by, Robert leaves. After, Edna insists that Arobin leave also.
In the morning, Edna tries to convince herself that things are better or will be better with Robert than they were the night before. Edna receives three letters: one from her son Raoul, one from her husband saying he will be back in early March, and a note from Arobin, assuring her of his devotion. Edna is very disappointed when Robert does not come that day or the following day or the next.
Edna eats dinner at a small restaurant. Robert walks in. Edna convinces him to share her dinner. After they eat, Robert walks Edna home and goes inside her house with her.
Edna kisses him. He kisses back. The two proclaim their love for each other. At this horribly inopportune moment, Adele enters into labor.
Edna makes Robert promise that he will stay there and wait for her until she comes back. Edna begins to feel uneasy remembering her own experiences with childbirth, and she thinks sadly of all the people that die.
Adele tells her to remember the children. Edna and the doctor walk home together. At home again, Edna lets herself inside, expecting to see Robert waiting in the parlor, but he is not there. Instead, there is a note saying, "I love you. Good-bye — because I love you. She lies down on the couch and is still lying there, awake, when in the morning, Celestine comes in to light the fire. Edna goes back to Grand Isle alone.
Her feeling of depression persists. Edna talks to Victor and Mariequita, and then goes down to the beach for a swim. Edna changes into her bathing suit, but later strips when she realizes the beach is deserted.
Edna swims out into the sea. She starts being afraid, but swims onward determinedly. She is far from shore and too tired to swim back. Edna thinks about her childhood as she gives herself over to the embrace of the sea. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Topics Character Roles Protagonist, Antagonist Although she has a husband who cares for her and two children, she is very unhappy.
She plays her roles as a mother and wife often, but still keeps doing things unmarried, barren women should do: enjoy the company of other men, ignore her children's cries, dress unladylike for the times. The story is set in the late 's, when women were to be in the kitchen preparing a meal for their family, giving birth to more children to help with daily chores, or sitting quietly at home, teaching the children while the husband was at work.
Edna Pontellier was a woman not of her time. At only 28, she would have rather been out gallivanting with different men, traveling with them, and painting …show more content… She was pressured to marry Leonce by her father and older sister. Along with marriage came the pressure to have children. She is forced into these roles but never actually succumbs to them.
Edna not only has Madame Ratignolle's friendship and her marriage to wake her up to her dreams and emotions, her affairs wake up to her desires. The way the different male characters treat her reminds her that she will never happily fit into the role of a wife and mother, therefore awakening her.
Leonce Pontellier was Edna's husband and the father of her children. Although she was married to him, it was not by her choice. Her oldest sister, who had stepped into the role as her mother when their mother died, and her father had the biggest say in whom Edna was to marry.
In the 's, women were perceived as property. They were first the property of their fathers, then property of their husbands - whoever was chosen by the parents for the women to marry. Leonce was in love with Edna, and had been since they met. Monsieur Farival Elderly gentleman vacationing on Grand Isle at the boardinghouse. The Farival twins Monsieur Farival's granddaughters who repeatedly practice on piano a duet from the opera Zampa. Laidpore Edna's drawing teacher and art broker; he sells her work, allowing her a small income.
Montel Old family friend of the Lebruns' whom Robert meets with in Mexico to seek his fortune. Previous About The Awakening. Next Chapter 1. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
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