The "Awakening " is really awakening. This book is very interesting. It relates to everyday society and how people really are. This book was written in the 1800"s which means that not much has changed since today! Really. So I feel, a lot of people are like that. There are friends that know your married and would accompany you while your out with your secret lover. Adele shouldn't allow edna to feel like she's doing something okay. Edna being so depressed and a wife with kids should just do the right thing and let her husband go before she chooses to engage in sexual activities with another man; but then again a lot of people do it. Ok so lets talk about robert. Robert who is the Elder spends alot of time with edna on the shore talking, but not really talking about life with one another or progressing in this lust relationship they have. Robert is a son who came from royalty and is known on that Island to be the player type around town. I guess when your young and have plenty of money and your only interest is married women, you could really lure a Grown woman into playing with fire. When Edna is with Robert she feels young, happy and I guess just like a teenager that's rebelling. Its seems to be a thrill for her to cheat on her husband because she's now confident that someone young like Robert is actually interested in someone not so young as herself. Kate chopin explains her confidence by writing how she learns how to swim; which is something most of us learn when we're kids. She also says she starts painting as when she did in her childhood.
This lets me know that Edna jumped the gun to soon; meaning marriage. She spent her whole life with probably the first guy she meant and is experiencing new testosterone that she really enjoys and was awaken by the fact that their are guys like robert out there. Robert realizes that this is going to far and just like a player can remove himself from the equation because she's just the girl on the side. So now Robert leaves the Island but Edna doesn't seemed too upset about that because when she goes back to New Orleans she's this new confident, feeling herself alot type of woman. She begins rebelling against her husband. Not doing her regular duties, speaking up to Leonce. There's a change in her attitude which allows her husband to feel the need to talk to the family physician about it. Now this doctor prescribes a dose of adultery to leonce's attention. Setriously, why couldn't Leonce figure that out on his own. He's always working, doesn't pay attention to his wife they way she wants so what does he expect her to do. Adele is a woman who doesn't really carry herself like a lady is what it seems, so you know the saying, "You can judge a person by the company they keep." I like the fact that Leonce chose not to believe the doctor and went on a business trip with the intentions that when he gets back to Edna things will still be the same. Edna choosing to forget about everybody even her kids because she basically wanted to sheme. she started sleeping with the town seducer for God sakes, now this just sounds like an old ass woman craving for attention. Because after she had sex she didn't choose to pursue this Alcree man she just wanted somebody to please her because she couldn't have Robert at that moment. Easy is what i call it! So now Robert misses her, comes back but lets her know there can't be anything serious between them; so why did he go all the way to New Orleans to tell her that again, why didn't he just stay away. He claims he loves her so much but yet doesn't want to be with her. Robert just wants to have his cake and eat it to and Edna isn't any better, she loses herself in this man and allows him to just wheel her in whenever he wants.
Now I feel adele is a hypocrit because before she didn't mind Edna cheating on her husband and hanging out with Robert but now that she's feeling like she lost her friend to this man, she starts to remind Edna that she should basically go back to tending to her kids. Edna ends up feeling lonely because now there's no Robert, no leonce no kids and now her friend is being hypocritical and her physician is telling her to rethink her lovelife. Instead of her being a real woman and just getting a divorce and taking care of her kids, she chooses to commit suicide. She was probably just unhappy with herself and felt that she no longer needed to live because she always needed a man by her side as if she couldn't be a strong independent single mother. I feel as though if your married and not happy you should move forward and do it by yourself for awhile before you choose to jump into the sheets with somebody else.
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Your post is long and intense; the novel seems to have touched a nerve in you. More accurately, you seem to have been moved by a story that sometimes resembles the one in "The Awakening" but often does not. Edna doesn't live in 2009; her world is very different. I don't know exactly what Louisiana marriage law was in Edna's day, but I suspect it would have been almost impossible for her to get a divorce unless her husband agreed to it, and she and Robert both seem to believe that his agreement would be a miracle.
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