The Awakening: After Reading - 3. Race
Welcome to this unit of study on Kate Chopin's short 1889 novel, The Awakening. Set in New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf coast, the novel's protagonist, Edna Pontellier, is a young woman who struggles to adapt to the conventions and expectations of a society she has married into. In particular, Edna cannot reconcile the conservatism of married life, of domesticity, and motherhood, which stifle her own romantic,...