COMPARISON OF LAST CHAPTERS IN “THE COLOR PURPLE” BY ALICE WALKER AND “THE AWAKENING” BY KATE CHOPIN.

Both, The Color Purple and The Awakening are novels about female struggle and hardships. Physically and geographically Edna is incomparable to Celie: they are of different races, different financial conditions, different social statuses. What they have in common, however, is their fascination with gender equality, their criticism of the patriarchal system they live in, and the fact that both women realized at some point in their life how long they have been sacrificing their existences for other individuals, such as their husbands or children. In the last chapters of both books these women are in environments in which they are truly happy; for Celie this environment is her own house, surrounded by the people she loves, for Edna it is her solitude on Grand Isle. Here, however, their journeys of self-discovery take different turns: Celie feels her lifetime goal has been achieved, as a fighter she is satisfied with her efforts, whereas Edna admits her loss as a protestor, and seeing her p...