Chapter 1-5 Of Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Chapters 1-5 Kate Chopin reveals characters using third person omniscient. She describes the character's behavior, thought , dialogue and actions. She uses a combination of external and internal events involving that particular character. One character that is described through both external and internal factors would be Mr. Pontellier. His actions are a little careless but when shown how he thinks, it is obvious that he cares. One event would be in the first and second chapter when he goes to a place similar to a club and leaves his family at the cabin. Yet when he comes home he is worried about the health of his children. The way Kate Chopin reveals characters is through combining both internal thoughts and external actions.

Chapters 6-10

During this time period gender roles were extremely strict on the portrayal of women should act inside and outside the house. They were considered property and supposed to be the lesser of men. Being a mother was considered to be good and righteous. Madame Ratignolle, is a perfect example to this, she is een under an angelic light. Independent women were always shunned. There was a disrespect that came to being an independent women. Those who did not have a husband or any male to tend to were the lowest of the low. An example of this would be Mademoiselle

At moment it is almost like she has a dual personality or is suffering from a multi-personality disorder. Even with this I can say she is a fully developed character. Her dilemma is knowing who she is and her journey in this novel is finding that out. She doesn’t have to know who she is as long as the reader can understand her character’s actions.

Chapters 26-30

Not every character goes through a conflict. A Majority of the conflicts are dues to Edna. She has one with her family. One moment she might miss them but in the next she feels as if they weigh her down. Edna goes through a moral conflict in understanding her limits and learning of who she is as a person. Robert faces and emotional conflict and eventually leaves. Roberts conflict is just minor to the amount Edna has. She has to deal with who she is as a person and how she feels about her family while he has to deal with his feelings for her.

Chapters 31-34

I expected the story to end in some over dramatic way because of the tone throughout the story. Edna is a wild card and she is addicted to the ocean. This basically foreshadowed her death. Logically what she did was suicide and made her seem extremely unstable but the purpose of her suicide was to represent her freeing herself from society. It was less of suicide and more of becoming something