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Roles Of Women In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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The novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, shows the roles women were supposed to take in society, and what would happen when a woman began to realize how unfairly they are being treated. Society has made people believe that a women’s duty was to be a mother and a wife, and yet still maintain their beauty. Edna Pontellier is a married woman, who at first does not think much about the way she is treated by her husband and children; she believes her life is great. But after a while she begins to question why they treat her the way they do and why she let them treat her like that, which eventually leads to her “awakening”. “They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves
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