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The Awakening Author: "She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before." — From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister — Edna Pontellier, the heroine of The Awakening, shocked readers in 1899 and the scandal created by the book haunted Kate Chopin for the rest of her life. The Awakeni... more »
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"Speaks to me as pertinently as any fiction published this year or last. It is uncanny, nothing else...A masteriece." Linda Wolfe, The New York Times
The publication of THE AWAKENING in 1899 occasioned shocked and angry response from reviewers all over the country. The book was taken off the shelves of the St. Louis Mercantile Library and its author was barred from the Fine Arts Club. Kate Chopin died in 1904.
THE MOTHER-WOMEN
"It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idoloized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels."
It was the summer of Edna Pontellier's twenty-eighth year and as she watched all the mother-women surrounding her on the beach, she vowed not to be one of them and to acknowledge the dire needs and deep yearnings within herself that were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
Kate Chopin was long before her time in dealing with secual passion...and the personal emotions of women." -- Jean Stafford, The New York Review of Books
The publication of THE AWAKENING in 1899 occasioned shocked and angry response from reviewers all over the country. The book was taken off the shelves of the St. Louis Mercantile Library and its author was barred from the Fine Arts Club. Kate Chopin died in 1904.
THE MOTHER-WOMEN
"It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idoloized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels."
It was the summer of Edna Pontellier's twenty-eighth year and as she watched all the mother-women surrounding her on the beach, she vowed not to be one of them and to acknowledge the dire needs and deep yearnings within herself that were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
Kate Chopin was long before her time in dealing with secual passion...and the personal emotions of women." -- Jean Stafford, The New York Review of Books
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Waste of time.
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I was surprised how well this story kept my interest. I tend to find novels written during this time period tedious, but I finished The Awakening within 4 days. The lead character, Edna, is someone every woman can relate to in one way or another. She is real and flawed.
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This book is a character study of a not particularly likable woman. If Edna was truly supposed to be suffering from depression, then her story is sad; otherwise, she comes across as merely selfish, impetuous, and childish, a woman dissatisfied with her lot in life but unwilling to find constructive ways to improve it. Even within the confining social structure of her times, she might have prevailed if she had tried. The writing was wildly uneven, fluctuating from rather lurid purple prose and flat dialogue to lines of elegant phrasing and insight.
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