I had to read this for my Women’s Literature class. It’s a short
read, 190 pages. This is a book I most likely would not have even heard
of let alone read had it not been for this class. But I ended up
enjoying it.
Kate Chopin is for sure a woman who was ahead of her time. This book
takes place in the late 1800’s and finds a woman, Edna, becoming aware
of herself as an individual. She is married to man who is at best
indifferent to her feels and at worst emotionally abusive.
In a time when woman are expected to be nothing more than wife and
mother (property of first their father than their husband) what is to
become of a woman who wakes up to realize she is cut out to be neither?
(read Sept. 2011)
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