1. Edna's Self-Expression
... . In this way she is like the parrot in Chapter 1 who speaks " a language which nobody [understands], unless it was the mocking-bird" (Chopin 1). The mockingbird, which merely whistles inarticulate "fluty notes" with "maddening persistence," resembles Edna's friends who seem to understand Edna but do not speak back. "Edna wants to womanly in her own way "to keep her own identity ... , Michael T. "The Revolt Against Nature: The Problematic Modernism of The Awakening. " Martin 109-39. MacDonald, Erin E. "Necessarily Vague: Kate Chopin's Gender- A wakening." Domestic Goddess. Editor, Kim Wel...
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