The Awakening- Edna's Suicide- Failure Or Success?
The Impasse-
Edna's suicide- failure or success?
T the end of Kate Chopin's novel „The Awakening" the protagonist Edna commits suicide.
The remaining question for the reader is: Does Edna's suicide show that she succeeded or failed in her struggle for independence?
Edna's new life in independency seems to be going well especially after Robert had returned from Mexico. The lover, who she met during her vacation at Grand Isle, told her that he loves her and he wants to marry her.
But her mood changes when her friend Adéle tells her that she should care more about her family as she does not spend enough time with her family because of her affairs.
Robert leaves Edna behind because Edna does not give a clear answer to his marriage proposal.
Afterwards she starts thinking about her life, her psychological and physical "awakening "and her children.
She invites her friends for dinner and returns to Grand Isle, where she pretends to go for swimming but never came back from......
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