The Awakening

The Awakening

Introduction

“The Awakening” is the novel by Kate Chopin, was first published in 1899. It was set in Southern Louisiana coast in New Orleans nearly at the end of nineteenth century. The novel has centered the character Edna Pontellier, a girl striving hard to reconcile her increasing unconventional vision on motherhood and femininity with the existing societal issues, Edna has been focusing on the motive of the turn-of-the-century South. The novel is known as one of the oldest American novel that focuses on women issues without ignoring any factor that could be seen widely as a landmark work of ...