The Awakening Setting Analysis
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place down south in nineteenth century Louisiana. The environment of New Orleans, Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada had a huge effect on the protagonist of the story, Edna Pontellier experience; in her of finding who she truly wanted to be. Each different environment helped her progress into finding on Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin masters the use of setting as it concerns to Edna’s journey of spiritual awakening. The changing of settings in Edna’s life makes her feel trapped like a bird, which leads to her downfall and represents the changes she is going through internally.
The different settings in The Awakening make Edna feel trapped like a caged bird. Edna originally hopes to …show more content…
In searching for her inner self she moves out into her own house, which breaks all rules that their society had on woman. This completely caught me off-guard but showed me how lost she was because for a woman who already lives in a big house to buy a smaller house to live in made no sense! She buy’s the pigeon house to try and experience freedom for herself, “The pigeon house pleased her… (Chopin 117). The pigeon house symbolizes how Edna could finally make decisions for herself. Mr. Pontellier does everything in his power to make sure society doesn’t view his family and himself negatively. He lies and covers up the reasons for why his wife moved out in one of the newspapers, he says “were contemplating a summer sojourn abroad, and that their handsome residence on Esplanade Street was undergoing sumptuous alterations, and would not be reading for occupancy until their return. Mr. Pontellier had saved appearances” (Chopin 117). Edna was still trapped in society because of how much her husband cared about how his family looked to society. Edna does not find freedom within the house, and this ends up leading to her suicide. By committing suicide she let go of everything in society and she felt she could finally find her true self. Nothing plays a bigger role in affecting her inner self more than the changing of environments
The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place down south in nineteenth century Louisiana. The environment of New Orleans, Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada had a huge effect on the protagonist of the story, Edna Pontellier experience; in her of finding who she truly wanted to be. Each different environment helped her progress into finding on Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin masters the use of setting as it concerns to Edna’s journey of spiritual awakening. The changing of settings in Edna’s life makes her feel trapped like a bird, which leads to her downfall and represents the changes she is going through internally.
The different settings in The Awakening make Edna feel trapped like a caged bird. Edna originally hopes to …show more content…
In searching for her inner self she moves out into her own house, which breaks all rules that their society had on woman. This completely caught me off-guard but showed me how lost she was because for a woman who already lives in a big house to buy a smaller house to live in made no sense! She buy’s the pigeon house to try and experience freedom for herself, “The pigeon house pleased her… (Chopin 117). The pigeon house symbolizes how Edna could finally make decisions for herself. Mr. Pontellier does everything in his power to make sure society doesn’t view his family and himself negatively. He lies and covers up the reasons for why his wife moved out in one of the newspapers, he says “were contemplating a summer sojourn abroad, and that their handsome residence on Esplanade Street was undergoing sumptuous alterations, and would not be reading for occupancy until their return. Mr. Pontellier had saved appearances” (Chopin 117). Edna was still trapped in society because of how much her husband cared about how his family looked to society. Edna does not find freedom within the house, and this ends up leading to her suicide. By committing suicide she let go of everything in society and she felt she could finally find her true self. Nothing plays a bigger role in affecting her inner self more than the changing of environments