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Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

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

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...

protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main c...

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

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

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...

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...

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...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

of status that is generally given to males by males. Only a woman could speak so clearly to the manner in which woman question th...

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

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

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...