Location
This city is where Edna lives with her husband for most of the novel.
What is Grand Isle?
Edna falls in love with this servant on Grand Isle.
Who is Robert Lebrun?
Words that can best describe Edna's relationship with her children.
What is distant, restricted, and/or conflicted?
The ideal role expected of women of the era.
What are devoted wives and mothers?
The ocean’s meaning to Edna.
What is freedom and escape?
This country is where Robert goes to avoid his feelings for Edna.
What is Mexico?
The woman Edna is compared to at the beginning of the novel as the ideal "mother-woman."
Who is Madame Ratignolle?
Where Edna leaves her children with for most of the summer while seeking out her independence.
Where is her grandmother's place in Ibervile?
The kind of lifestyle that was expected of men like Mr. Pontellier.
What is working and travelling to provide for their families?
Edna learning how to swim
What is her first awakening and desire for independence?
This small house symbolizes Edna’s independence when she moves out.
What is the pigeon house?
Edna enters a relationship with this man that focuses on physical intimacy rather than emotional connection.
Who is Alcée Arobin?
The contrasting differences between Madame Ratignolle's and Edna's views on motherhood.
What is giving up the essentials for their children?
Edna’s feelings for Robert were socially unacceptable for this reason.
What is already being married?
The birds, especially caged birds.
What is the feeling of being trapped?
This specific location is where Edna first realizes her awakening and ends the novel with her death.
What is the beach at Grand Isle?
An unpopular woman who helps Edna explore her artistic passions during her awakening.
Who is Mademoiselle Reisz?
What Edna is not willing to give up for her children.
What is "herself"?
The social obligation Edna stopped doing after her “awakening"
What is greeting guests on the day she was supposed to host?
The pigeon house
What is Edna breaking away from her wealthy lifestyle?
Leonce typically leaves his home to visit and do business with the men at this hotel.
What is Kleins?
Léonce Pontellier's view of Edna as the "sole _____ of his existence" provides insight into how the couple becomes distant with one another during Edna's awakening.
What is "object"?
The first distance we see Edna neglecting traditional motherly duties.
What is checking on her child Raoul for a fever?
Robert's hesitation to pursue Edna and rejecting her independence comes from this traditional viewpoint on relationships.
What are husbands claiming and releasing their wives as if they are property?
A bird with a broken wing near the beach.
What is Edna's failed attempt at freedom and the consequences it presents in the long term?