Robert Lebrun In The Awakening

Although, The Awakening, tells a story about a woman who is passionate about finding and loving her true self, which causes a lot of trouble with her family and friends. As she tries to find herself, her lust for affection and passion begins to happen in the summer of 1890. The main character Edna Pontellier, is trying to break free from the position that society has put on her. While Edna is finding herself, herself who is not a wife or a mother, she comes in contact with a male named Robert Lebrun. Robert Lebrun is a very seductive man, who has Edna on his mind. Throughout her vocation Robert and Edna become emotionally close, and his departure to Mexico made her extremely depressed on her way back. Edna’s husband, Lèonce Pontellier tells a doctor about Edna’s strange behavior, and in return he has to let her be until the strange behavior goes away. While Robert is away, he sends Edna letters about his feelings and those for feelings for her becomes stronger. Robert comes to visit her, and she starts to kiss him and he confesses his love for her. She
Even though many critics have criticized this book on its context, instead of a deeper meaning that it has on society, especially women, a feminist approach is best for this book. The feminist approach will tell how the social norms have changed for women, how women are open in society, feminist are more welcomed in today’s society than in the 1800s, and how society has changed as a whole. Also to talk about how more and more women are fighting for their rights and sexuality all over the world and how men and women should go against the stereotypes that are put on them. Women rights have evolved and so have women, but The Awakening received so much backlash because the book was set ahead of it times and was just an opening gate for modern-day