The Significance of Birds in the Awakening

Through her passionate and dramatic voice, Kate Chopin narrated the heroic yet at the same time tragic story of Edna Pontellier, a twenty-eight-year-old wife of a New Orleans businessman. Upon finding herself dissatisfied with her marriage and limited life-style, Edna broke free from her vague, unconscious state of blindly devoted wife and mother and evolved into a state of awareness, in which she discovered her own identity and boldly acted on her desires for emotional …

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