The Awakening

The novel The Awakening is written by Kate Chopin. The plot consists of the conflict between Edna, the protagonist, and the expectation required of her as a Creole wife. Her escape from her husband, Leonce, and children comes to her at the Grand Isle, the family’s vacationing home, in the form of Robert Lebrun. Because she feels trapped in her role as a woman living during the early 1900’s, she seeks Robert’s youthful …

…with aspects in their life. People have the choice on how to deal with them in their own ways. Edna chose to take a negative and resentful standpoint on her trouble. She resents her husband, children, Robert and even her own life. This is what forces her into depression and having any self-respect. In her mind she could only take so much until she decided to take her life in the depths of the ocean.