The Awakening Title and Character Analysis An awakening is often said to be a change in one’s perception which can take place in a moment. A moment is all it can take, but where one goes with the awakening is what is actually important. The other question led by curiosity is if one actually has an awakening or not. To decipher these questions I will use Kate Chopin’s award-winning novella “The Awakening” and it’s content and characters to explain the idea and events of pre and post awakening.
Caroline Johnston Professor Leonard Appling American Literature II 9/16/15 Twain and Chopin In her most famous novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin writes of her protagonist, “Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” Although Chopin is detailing the protagonist’s inward struggles due to her duties as a housewife, it does raise an
In the “Story of an Hour” the main character, Mrs. Mallard, receives the tragic news that her husband has been killed in an accident. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend, Richards break the news to her as gently as possible because readers learn that Mrs. Mallard “was afflicted with a heart trouble”(Chopin 13). She spends some time alone in her room sorting through a plethora of different emotions and later emerges from her room and descends the staircase to find her proclaimed dead husband