The Awakening And Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

Kate Chopin is an U.S. author of short stories and novels Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and have written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United Sates. Readers often find difference in two characters from two different stories in and Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Women” as it tell the reader about marriage, adultery and suicide. Chopin’s Edna Potellier decide to take her life as she could not have motherhood and selfhood at the same time nerveless Kingston’s aunt decide to take her own life as she have no family and purpose to live. Both women does not have much option beside suicide. Chopin’s Edna Potellier and Kingston’s

The story start with Edna Pontellier and her husband Léonce are staying at the cottages of Madame Lebrun with their two sons. Léonce is caring and cherishing however, he is always engrossed with his work. His regular business-related absences and spending time with his friends damage his marriage life with Edna therefore their marriage lacks passion and excitement. Edna spends time with Adèle Ratignolle; Edna learns about freedom of expression through her friendship with Adèle. Since Creole women are expected and assume to be virtuous, they have to act in a sincere way and outspoken. The discovery to such openness frees Edna from her beforehand modest conduct, subdued feelings and desires. Chopin express that Edna does not want to be a wife and a mother as she

He hired an architect to remodel the house so no one will get suspicious and advertises in the newspaper that he and Edna will go on vacation while the house is remodeling. Due to Edna moving out, her strength comes from her dismissal of her social obligation. Her new house is more unassuming, and its little size denies the stimulating that was such a piece of her previous life. Hence, Edna accepts that independence and social rank form an opposite relationship. She ignores the desires of those around permits her to demonstration in understanding to her own particular desires and attitude. She eases herself from the commitments of her encompassing and experiences an advancement that prompts new strength and independence. She frees herself from all the obligations and denies the world she have living. She relinquishes everything around her including her friends and family; additionally the security and support from them. She brakes free monetary as well as being a wife and mother by abandoning her children for her desires. Consequently, she does not gave up on selfhood as an individual; it is more important than being a mother. She does not see no forthcoming in combining motherhood and selfhood. Under those circumstances, she commits suicide. On the other hand, Maxine Hong Kingston's aunt situation is getting disown by her family and village.