This is a look at 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin. When you first look at the life of Edna you think there is not much to discuss. Edna is a married woman who at first seems vaguely
satisfied with her life--'she grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or
excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.' (Chopin, 558).
Edna doesn't know what she wants from life. It is evident from the way she tries to change her life to make it better, that she wants her own happiness. …
