A personal response to A Doll's House

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, shows how women were repressed and had to fight to gain all the freedoms we have today. It shows this through the life of Mrs. Edna Pontellier. At the beginning of the story, Edna is spending time at a summer house with her husband and children. She seems very unattached to her children at this point. Everything she does in the beginning is based on what Mr. Pontellier would like for her to do, and what he would approve of. When Edna meets and begins to spend time with Robert Lebrun she finally begins to realize that she is not treated as her husband’s wife, but almost as his servant. He believed her role was only to take care of the house, watch after the children, and receive the family’s guest. He was strongly against her going out of the house, es...