The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century ...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, published in 1899, is a groundbreaking exploration of female autonomy and societal constraints in late 19th-century America. The novel centers on Edna Pontellier, who, within the confines of Creole society in New Orleans, experiences a profound awakening to her own desires and a yearning for independence.

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Mar 14, 2025 · The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. The novel depicts a young mother’s struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipation in the oppressive environment of the postbellum American South. Today it …

Set in the late 1800's this is a beautifully written, gentle book about the awakening of a woman to a side of herself she had never suspected existed. Edna married her businessman husband Leonce "quite by accident" when he fell madly in love with her.

The Awakening opens in the late 1800s in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans. Edna Pontellier is vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their two sons at the cottages of Madame Lebrun, which house affluent Creoles from the French Quarter. Léonce is kind and loving but preoccupied ...

The Awakening. by Kate Chopin. I. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right!”

Mar 11, 2006 · "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin is a novel that likely dates from the late 19th century. It revolves around Edna Pontellier, a young married woman who experiences a profound transformation during a summer at Grand Isle, leading her to question the constraints of her society and her roles as a wife and mother.