The Awakening

Well to be honest with you all, I absolutely hated this book. I thought it was dry, I thought it wasn't very developed and I thought it was too short. I would have liked the book more if there were more details about what exactly was going through Edna's head through the entire thing. However, this book did make me think a lot.

In the beginning it seemed as if Edna was very confused as she didn't know exactly what it was that she wanted. It appeared as if she was confused with her life and tried to find exactly what she wanted/needed throughout the entire book. Edna married her husband not out of love but for money. Also, Edna didn't care for her children as most mothers do. She seemed "disconnected" from them, not the motherly figure that I would have expected.

Edna also had a struggle in finding true love. Like I had said earlier, she married for money and not for love, which in my opinion is a horrible idea -- not that it wouldn't be nice, it's just not right to marry someone without being "in love" with them. But alas, she meets Robert, "the supposed man of her dreams." However, she decides that she wants to be alone. She then goes on to kill herself, drowning in the ocean. I think the symbolism the other is trying to make here is a sort of "cleansing" that the ocean brings.

Overall, I disliked the book, I mean it wasn't all that great. It made me think too hard, but what can you do?