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The Awakening

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The Awakening	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 1899 novella by Kate Chopin about Edna Pontellier, a married Victorian mother who experiences an awakening of her sexuality and creativity while vacationing on an island with her husband.This begins when she meets a young man named Robert and develops an affection for him that is well beyond any love she feels for her husband. As the vacation progresses she becomes more and more distant from her husband and children, doing things like sleeping in a hammock rather than in bed with him and spending all day painting. Even after the vacation ends, Edna is a changed woman and cannot let go of what she discovered. The revelations about herself and her marriage cause her to question Victorian gender roles and the life she feels like she has unquestioningly walked into.While the novella did receive some favourable or even rapturous contemporary reviews, it alienated conservative critics at the time and developed a somewhat scandalous reputation. Chopin continued writing until her death some five years later, but sometimes had difficulty finding publishers, and much of her later work was not published until long after her death (bearing particular mention is her short story "The Storm", which is both one of earliest known examples of English-language erotica by a female author and even more subversive in its content than The Awakening). By The '60s and The '70s, her work underwent a re-evaluation courtesy of feminist critics and scholars, and the novella has since been canonised as a masterpiece of American literature and has been in print ever since.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It has sometimes been compared to Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) and Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).
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The Awakening / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Believed by Adèle. Questioned heavily by Edna.
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The Awakening / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Awakening / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Robert is a sort of example, in that he tends to fraternize with widows and single women, but he rarely goes beyond flirting. Alcée Arobin has a scandalous reputation with women.
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The Awakening / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
The Awakening / int_6205f4e5	comment	Courtly Love: What Robert and Edna have, although Edna does seem to desire a physical relationship with Robert.
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The Awakening / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Chopin's wider corpus of work suggests that Edna's lack of awareness of her surroundings is at least partially a consequence of her having been sheltered from the outside world. Servants and others are treated as background characters, but other works in Chopin's corpus tackle issues such as class, race, and miscegenation in manners that could be considered Fair for Their Day (particularly given that Chopin had been raised in a slave-owning Confederate household). Chopin's characteristic understatement means that readers unfamiliar with the wider context of her work may read Chopin herself as being indifferent to these characters, when the narrative's lack of focus on them is more likely meant as subtle commentary on how Edna's lack of education renders her imperceptive of her surroundings.
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The Awakening / int_e77f74ca	type	Bi the Way
The Awakening / int_e77f74ca	comment	Bi the Way and/or Homoerotic Subtext: The narrative implies that Edna is attracted to Adèle and Mlle. Reisz, and goes so far as to mention that "we might as well call love" her feelings for Adèle.
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