The Awakening Blog Assignment

The Awakening was a good book, full of feminist thought and logic with regards to the way women were treated at the time. Some of the feminist issues presented in the story are the ideas that women are not beneath men and that they do not need to answer to them when they desire to follow their motivations. There is also the argument that women's clothing of the time was constricting both physically and emotionally. It was physically constricting by restraining a woman's free movement, and it was emotionally limiting by the fact that women were seen as frail creatures that had to be tight-waisted and full of beauty.

Question: What other feminist ideas are prevalent throughout the story? How are they revealed both the Edna and the reader?