The setting seemed to throw the reviewers off. ... However the reviewers looked upon the book as strange because of the setting. ... The Awakening was Chopin's first noted novel, and also her last. ... Chopin finished writing The Awakening in January 1898. ... She was even accepted back into the Wednesday Club, a society of intellectual women, who had omitted her after the publication of The Awakening (Ewell 25). ...

• Word Count: 1243
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the height of her fame, she also wrote and published two novels "At Fault" (1890) and "The Awakening" (1899). ... In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, and the new couple moved to Louisiana, which became the setting for many of her short stories. In New Orleans, she brings to life the Louisiana setting, and the personalities of her characters, which are usually Creoles or Cajuns. ... Chopin's career is cut short when her last novel "The Awakening" is published in 1899. ... She wrote or published very little after the hostility she received from "The Awakening" and in 1904, she died ...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Akaky himself is really an excuse for the writer to describe in some detail the bureaucracy itself, which means that the background and setting are not implied but may be as important to the significance of the story as Akaky is himself. ... He uses literature as means of social awakening; to tell people that the existing system must be changed and the power must be taken away from such unjust bureaucrats....

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3

To understand the concept of the awakening of the self, the reader needs to step back from the lines of the page, and observe how even the point of view cries out the message of changes to come. ... Ironically, the setting of the tale, addresses this changing of old ideas for a novel approach to personal freedom. ... The setting ties directly back to the idea of replacing the black and white perceptions of the ego, driven by greed, vanity, and self pity, with a centralized notion of independently, self-recognized thoughts, which are the building blocks of one's own reality. ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate