Abortion In Ernest Hemingway's The Awakening

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Kat has been living in an imaginary word, because she thinks she can get whatever she wants, from successes in the world of fashion to control over Ger. Firstly, Kat truly wants children but is unable to find a husband who will raise children with her. However, she realizes when she saw her benign tumor. “She was intensely interested in her own body, in anything it might choose or produce. “(pg#30) She not only keeps the cyst on her mantelpiece but also talks lovingly to the HairBall. Although, she imagines that she has given birth to. It could either remind her of the two abortion or the children, she might have if the men who had sex with, wanted to marry her. Secondly, she eventually realizes that she longs for a life like Cheryl’s rather