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The novel, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin is set in the late nineteenth century, in Louisiana. This is a place and time for women to submit themselves to the wants and needs of husbands and families. The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, isn’t content with being a ....

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.... who devoted her life to music, rather than a man. Feeling that neither of their lifestyles were suitable and lacking the ability to create a model of her own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape” (Spangler). In witnessing other women achieve the articulation of a complexly spirited life, she may have found a new life easier to attain. Adele serves as the perfect "mother-woman" in The Awakenin ....