EDNA'S SELF-EXPRESSION In Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, suddenly finds herself dissatisfied with her marriage and the conservative lifestyle that it allows. ... While Robert arouses her senses, Arobin releases the "animalism that stir[s] impatiently within her" (Chopin 89). ... Works Cited » Chopin, Kate. ... "The Revolt Against Nature: The Problematic Modernism of The Awakening. " Martin 109-39. ... "Necessarily Vague: Kate Chopin's Gender- A wakening." ...

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