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The Awakening Author: Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. — Condemned at the time it was written, The Awakeni... more » has been valued in later years for its unflinching honesty and sexual frankness.
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