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The Awakening Reflection

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When the air stiffens out of fear, to the point where you choke on your own words the only thing that can be heard is silence. Is there such a thing as too far when this happen? As time moves forward it becomes normal where we depend on it in a sense that once gone there’s an empty feeling in ourselves without it. We become an empty shell of ourselves that needs to be filled by another to do the same as the one before, never allowing there to be the healthy type of change that everyone goes through in their lifetime. With this void one can even lose sight of who they are on the inside leading to the point where they can’t even recognize themselves when staring at their reflection. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin Edna faces this …show more content…

This can as well show how their marriage also suffers from this difference in standpoint that leads to their coldness and unemotional connection between the two. From this it also allows one to see how he chooses to ignore the fact that there is a problem between the two and rather ignore it until it begins to escalate to the point of no control. “Has she been associating of late with a circle of pseudo-intellectual women super-spiritual superior beings? My wife has told me about them.”(page 66). This shows that he has been naive for the time being until it came to the point where he won’t be able to control her.
Since now she has associated herself with others who aren’t following what society has set for them to follow. Showing how he didn’t concern himself as to how his wife was feeling and how she was not happy with the life she was to have in the process. Leading to the fact that from this since he wanted to save his reputation instead of his wife leading to him wanting to control her as well make her wear a mask to hide who she truly is.
Whereas with Robert a man who apparently has feelings for Edna instead causes complications leading to her wanting and later on needing that feeling of being repressed by a man. This is first seen when “good-by my dear Mrs. Pontellier; good-by. You won’t I hope you won’t completely forget me. She clung to his hand, striving to detain him.

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