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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: July 31, 2020

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Mar 23, 2015 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: literary-fiction

Kate Chopin has written in The Awakening a moving and heartfelt glimpse into the struggles of a woman who is torn between her traditional role as wife and mother and her need to satisfy the dreams and needs of self. Edna Pontellier is as individual as any real person any of us knows and as such she captures our empathy and understanding and awakes in us a bit of our feelings of desire for solitude and fulfillment.

As is so true for most human beings, shattered contentment and self-sacrifice are ...more

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Jan 19, 2021 Beth rated it really liked it

I don't agree with how Edna, the main character, chose to fight for what she believed but perhaps she didn't know her ideas were something other women desired or that they might be worth fighting for. As it turns out, I believe her actions were selfish. However, under the age-old circumstances in which she found herself, it was the best she could do sadly. ...more

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Aug 11, 2017 Library Nymph rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, love-the-cover, rory-gilmore-challenge

3.5 round up.

I liked this book more then I thought I would. I have to say the common blurp "sexual awakening of a young woman" doesn't really do the story justice. I think it would be better to say this book is "a tragic story of a woman who, because of monotony and loneliness, becomes reckless in love and life". At least, that's how I saw it. ...more

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