Edna’s Failure to Find Her Female Role in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

In The Awakening we meet Edna, a woman in search of her female identity. She is uncomfortable in her role as the “patriarchal woman” and has trouble becoming either a “modern woman” or an “emancipated woman” To fully understand Edna’s search one must understand the patriarchal society in Chopin’s wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kämpenberg, Kristin
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-914