Complimented by 5 sources listed in bibliography. A 4 page essay on the development of the character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's novel. The paper traces Edna's life as a complacent married woman through her romance with a younger man and the subsequent changes this produced in her life.
Bibliography lists two sources in addition to Chopin's novel.
Writer sees her as a character that gradually learns to understand her own true self. A 6 page paper arguing that Chopin creates the soul of Other, in order to reflect the political themes affecting Creoles in The Awakening. The Other is expressed in the soul of Edna as both black and a 'domesticated' woman. It is also reflected of the soul housed in the construct of the body. All of these souls need releasing, which Chopin displays through imagery of flight as it is reflected in the warnings and subtleties of birds in flight.