The Awakening. XIII ... to ask for water. A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more ... Edna could hear the whispering voices of dead men and the ...

Similarly, Edna’s pursuit of the musical arts was criticized as an abandonment of her responsibility as a mother-wife, a pursuit presented as an awakening, or reawakening, of the senses.

Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” (1899) is a perfect bell of a novel. “The Awakening” tracks the spiritual and emotional deterioration of Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky native living with her Creole husband ...

Rowe argues that "Edna's drawings express nothing more than the listless yearning of the leisure-class white" ("The Economics of the Body in Kate Chopin's The Awakening," in Kate Chopin Reconsidered: ...

The Awakening's heroine, Edna Pontellier, challenged society's expectations for women by daring to explore romance outside her marriage and gratification outside of motherhood. 5.

For the journey of Edna Pontellier ... The Awakening: Adapted by Oren Stevens and developed by Ariel Craft from Kate Chopin. Directed by Ariel Craft. Through Aug. 20. Two hours. $20.

It's easy to imagine that more than a century after its publication Kate Chopin's The Awakening might have lost some of its cultural relevancy.