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The Internal Struggle In Chopin's The Awakening

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The Awakening is a feminist story about the internal struggle of Edna Pontellier. Edna is a unhappily married woman who has two children that she does not care for as much as she should. In the beginning of the novel when we meet Edna and we are not really able to see how she feels on the inside we just see the external feelings. Edna is not the kind of woman that she is expected to be in this time period she does not care how she looks in public and does not like being spoiled by her husband and also is not a loving mother. Later on in the novel Edna meets Robert and basically falls in love with him and does not want to be married to her husband Leonce anymore. Edna is not used to doing stuff with or fooling around with other guys that are

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