In a sense The Awakening is a story about rebellion of a quiet sort, a coming of
Question:
In Chopin's quest to present Edna's entrapment, despair, and (possible) suicide from her own point of viewa journey that leads through illicit sex and eventually into a deeper sort of solitude in which sexuality seems to be transcended or left behindshe uses the technique of shifting the narrative center.
Why does Chopin not allow Edna to rise up at any point and speak her own mind completely and clearly, to anyone else, or even to herself? Could this be the very heart of the oppression that she experiences, an oppression so com.plete as to deny the victim a full sense of her own predicament? Choose two or three moments where Edna seems on the verge of that kind of recognition or utterance and discuss how these moments work in the novel.
Organizational Behaviour Concepts Controversies Applications
ISBN: 978-0132310314
6th Canadian Edition
Authors: Nancy Langton, Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Katherine Breward