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one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

the only musician of the first order whose creative life pivoted around the piano.4 In fact, Chopin was known as the "poet of the ...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...