... as rebellious and treated by some as an outcast. Near the beginning of "The Awakening," Edna's husband, Leonce, poses the question, "If it is not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth is it?" (Chopin 7). In saying this, Leonce is reflecting the view of the masses - women should be mothers, giving up themselves for the needs of their children. He believes that women should be ... selfless, never taking from their families, but remaining the one in the household who's sacrificial. Leonce believes, just as other men during the Gilded Age, that Edna should be the "angel of ...

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