The Awakening: A Character Analysis

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In these chapters, Edna begins to realize the futility and oppressiveness of her life as a housewife and with Robert gone, she loses the one aspect of joy and adventure in her life. We see this transition most clearly on page fifty-one. Here we see Edna become extremely annoyed at her husband's reading of the business cards. She finds the triviality of his actions ridiculous, she asks why he was "taking the thing so seriously and making such a fuss over it" (51). However, she also found his actions to be aversive because of how controlling they are. While reading the cards Edna's husband makes a small remark on each woman, effectively trying to control her social life. He is a very controlling person and this is slowly wearing Edna down. We

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