the Awakening

Question:
How does Chopin describe Edna’s process from being a subject to her husband to be an independent woman? With a notice, how the racism in the book shown? What some symbolism in the book?

Comment: The awakening shows us the story how Edna to be an independent woman through out her lives. In the book, Chopin starts with the parrot in the cage in the beginning. It symbols Edna’s life that is constrained by the society and people around her. However, Edna is looking for a life for herself. She is not a mother figure at all who is supposed to be a housewife rather looking for something else outside. She hides her sexuality because she is afraid of being isolated by the society. Meize is her role model but she is afraid of being her because she might be alone all life long. She wants to be an artist, express her ideas and doing what she wants to do. In order to demonstrate herself, she learns to how to swim, listening to Meize playing piano and rent a house to live on her own. Finally, she figures out how she is going to do to be independent