The Loneliness

The Loneliness In Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, she tells the story of a confused woman trying to find her place in the world. This woman, Edna, would fit perfectly into 21st century America, but on the eve of the 20th century she was a fish out of water. She did not want to be thought of as her husband’s property, or just someone’s mother, she wanted to be an individual and …

…give that up. She was glad to think of herself as a person and not just a wife or a mother or a daughter. No longer felling like Leonce’s property, she was a new woman, a woman who had independence. This left her with nowhere to go, because she no longer fit into the roles society had placed on women. Alone and hopeless, she drowned in her sorrows at the bottom of the ocean.