As Edna’s ability and need to express herself grows, less and less people are able to understand her actions and ways of thinking. In The Awakening, the Farival twins play music to entertain guests only. This shows the way Victorian women were supposed to use art and behave. As stated before, the music now makes Edna feel this shows progression in emotional development and is another sign of her rebirth. One allusion used often throughout the story is children. Edna’s children are a responsibility she cannot be rid off and they hinder her efforts at becoming truly independent. Edna is very childlike as a result of her rebirth, she acts as if seeing things for the first time and from a new perspective, she does not stop to think about the consequences of her actions for herself and others, and she has become very self-absorbed. Many critics think that Edna commits suicide because she believes that her sons’ lives will be adversely affected by society’s opinion of her. In a sense Edna and Victorian women in general are like a caged bird, their movements are all restricted the birds’ by their cage and Victorian women’s by society. The cawing bird in the beginning and the hurt seagull in the end are both allusions to the female condition. Every step in Edna’s awakening can be marked by a house. On Grand Isle, she plays the role of family woman and wife. In New Orleans, she is a social hostess. When visiting the Cheniere Caminada with Robert Chopin shows the finding of a temporary shelter and more change, and lastly at the “pigeon house” Edna is at home with out all of Léonce’s extravagant things and she is independent. However, it is not a solution because she is still cooped up and “two steps away”(Chopin). Kate Chopin has a tendency to write about passionate, unorthodox women often relating to the Creole culture in which Kate was raised. Around the time of The Awakening’s publishing feminism and women’s rights

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