The Awakening

The Awakening
Tentative Thesis: Edna’s need to be independent and free results in the consequence of living in solitude and ultimately sacrificing her life demonstrating a major theme of this story.
Narrator: “Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate” (18t).
Narrator: “Old Monsieur Farival, grandfather of the twins, grew indignant over the interruption, and insisted upon having the bird removed and consigned to regions of darkness” (23b).
Narrator: “The name of the piece was something else, but she called it “’Solitude”’” (24b).
Narrator: “She started to walk alone” (28m).
Narrator: “She heard him moving about the room; every sound indicating impatience and irritation. Another time she would have gone in at his request. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desires; not with any sense as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the ...