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The Awakening: A Disappointing Ending |
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At the ending of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, the central character Edna Pontellier allows the tides to carry her to a certain death. While this ending is consistent with Edna’s constant failure to think beyond the moment, it is disappointing because she impulsively wastes her life and her freedom.
Many of Edna’s choices seem to be entirely impulsive or very poorly thought out. She marries a man, not because they share a deep love and a common plan for the future, but to spite her father. When the reader first meets Edna she is disappointed with her marriage although her marriage is envied by her peers. She is bored with her marriage although she points to no specific deep problem in the relationship. Marriage was a socially acceptable way for her to es
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While the ending of this novel in disappointing because Edna wastes her life and destroys her family it is consistent with the character that has been developed through the novel. Edna is impulsive, easily bored, and unable to view things from a long-range perspective. Her impulsively chosen spouse disappoints her. Her normal healthy children bore her. And when her lover deserts her she makes no effort to think about how she can start over and live a meaningful life. Instead she lets the tide carry her away.
When Edna decides to leave her husband she does so without explanation or and attempt to make things work. Just as she jumped into marriage without fully understanding the consequences of her actions, she jumps out when he impulse tells her she wants t
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