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A 10 page research paper that is composed of 4 short essays (roughly 2.5 pages each) on works by J.D. Salinger, Kate Chopin, Thomas Hardy, Saul Bellow and Annie Proulx. Works discussed include: Chopin, The Awakening; J.D. Salinger, For Esme with Love and Squalor, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Hardy's On the Western Circuit; Proulx's The Shipping News, and Bellow's Something to Remember Me By. No additional sources cited.
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Edna Pontelliers quest for identity, her "awakening" to her own talents and sexuality, and her descent into despair and eventual suicide as she realizes that there is no place for
her in society, no where that she will truly feel as if she "fits." Rather than conform to societal expectations, she commits suicide. At the beginning of the novel,
Edna is still trying to conform to nineteenth century expectations for women. She knows that she is suppose to be gladly subservient to the wishes of her husband and devoted
to her children, but she simply does not feel this way. Edna realizes fully that there are women that "idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy
privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels" but she realized that she was not one such a "mother-woman" (Chopin 19). Because Edna has spent so
much of her life trying to conform to a standard that is antithetical to her true nature, she feels that her life is a charade, that she has no real
identity. When Edna marries Leonce Pontellier and moves away from her strict upbringing in Kentucky, she becomes exposed to the freer, Creole culture of New Orleans. Chopin records that "Mrs.
Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that summer at Lebruns. They all knew each other, and
felt like one large family" (22). Edna is also struck by the Creoles entire lack of prudery (23). For example, she is astonished when she hears women openly
discussing what must have been a racy book because Edna feels compelled to read it in "secret and solitude" while the other women read it freely and discuss it at
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