Irony In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

So I am going to start with a quick analogy between IB and sleep to give a preface to my presentation. Sleep expects you to use it for about 9 hours per night , but being in IB can we really listen to it. Can we follow what sleep wants or do we strive against it? I personally strive against it and somehow it always seems to pull me back in. The desire is too strong for me to do my IB homework , therefore through all my force I am left going to sleep. The only way for me not too sleep is through the holy grail of coffee, so at the end of all my fighting I just let myself go and drink some coffee to keep myself from sleep.

Edna does the exact same thing through her suicide at the end. But through my presentation this analogy will come up,

She was following society and she decided it was time to change because she was leading a life in which she had no interest. There is also irony in this quote between the flowers and antagonistic. Flowers are usually something of beauty and love, but instead here they are portrayed as being hostile This kind of relates back to the situation Edna is in because she lives a life in which a lot of people are jealous of. Two healthy kids, a wealthy husband, and the security of a good life, but she sees it as a place where she is held captive and cant be free to do what she wants whenever she wants to do it. Here she is struggling within herself because on the outside she knows she lives a life that is fine, but in the inside she knows she wants

Before she lived in one dull note, but with this new found freedom so many things could go wrong or right, Some days she just felt being in this state of mind of freedom was good enough to make her happy, she could go to places she may have never gone if she was not independent. She liked to dream alone and be with herself. She had to learn about herself before she could understand the people around her. Edna was what she wanted to understand, everything about herself what she liked, what she aspired to do with the paintings, and what really made her happy. Other days when she was sad, she was confined, not independent, these days were with her husband and children. When life presented itself as a non adventurous place, it gave her no creativity to paint. She needed to travel to find the inspirations for her paintings and to find her inner self. The days she was sad she could only show her outer self, the days she could be by herself both her inner and outer self shone through. Also on the days she was upset, she really only had one note of emotions ,dullness,, she had nothing else to show. As it said in the quote she had to “to stir her pulses”, because it was like she was not even alive, she was not herself, she had to find those little moments to keep her going through the