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The Awakening

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The Awakening Synopsis

While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of self-discovery that is accelerated after she meets the charming Robert Lebrun. Yet, when Robert departs for Mexico and the summer vacation ends, Edna's new-found sense of independence and personal freedom mean that she isolates herself from New Orleans society and rejects her former lifestyle. Moving into a home of her own and choosing a lover, Edna soon becomes a protégée of the unconventional pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, through whom she learns that Robert still longs for her.

Centring upon the conflict between Edna's increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood and the prevailing social attitudes of the fin de siècle American South, The Awakening is widely seen as a landmark of early feminism and a precursor of American modernism.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781847498250
Publication date: 12th March 2020
Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books COMMIS
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 192 pages
Series: Evergreens
Genres: Classic fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Interior life
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging