Similarities Between The Awakening And Forrest Gump

Traditional marriage has been an age old struggle for women. This topic can be found in different works that have been published or directed, two such instances of this struggle are illustrated in Kate Chopin’s story The Awakening and Robert Zemeckis’ film Forrest Gump. In Chopin’s The Awakening, the protagonist Edna struggles with her traditional marriage during a summer vacation. The attention of a younger man, Robert, helped Edna realize that she did not like her present situation of being a wife and mother of two children. Edna starts to break away from the norms of her society and tries to start living more freely and according to her own will. She would eventually leave her husband and begin to live on her own. The society at that time,

She has several relationships, but they do not work out. She later becomes a mother to Forrest’s baby and eventually marries Forrest. Jenny came around to the idea of marriage after living a life that was free from responsibility and realizing the emptiness of her other relationships, whereas Edna was married and felt empty, then later sought the freedom to become her own women. Each story shows the struggles these characters went through and used similar symbolism to emphasize the points they were trying to

Edna marrying Leonce is a result of her rebelling against her father. He did want not her to marry Leonce, but she marries him anyway. This was the beginning of her downfall because she did not truly love Leonce. While on vacation at Grand Isle Edna spent a fair amount of time with Robert, the innkeeper’s son. He was known to direct his attention to a different woman each summer, and this summer Edna was the object of his attention. This was a normal practice for Robert, but no one really took him seriously. The problem was that Edna was not the typical wife and become fond of Robert. Although Leonce did care for Edna, she is referred to as being part of his property. “Yet Chopin does hint that late-nineteenth-century marriages cast women as the objects of others rather than as the free subjects of their own fates” (Fox 120). Edna realize that she no longer wanted to be like the other wives and decided to leave Leonce. The problem with leaving her husband was that in the late 1800’s a woman would not leave her husband and live on her own, she would be expected to stay