The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Thesis Statement

The novel highlights the inferior social status of women that was firmly entrenched meanwhile; upper-class ladies like Edna Pontellier were ornaments, displays of their husbands' wealth.

Discussion

Chopin describes this awakening by remaining steadfastly in Edna's point of view throughout the novel, so that the reader sees people and things from the perspective of a woman whose eyes have been opened for the first time in her life to the cold, hard truths about human existence.

As the quote suggests:

“Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some ...