Edna Pontellier was a controversial character. She upset many nineteenth century expectations for women and their supposed roles. One of her most shocking actions was her denial of her role as a mother and wife. Kate Chopin displays this rejection gradually, but the concept of motherhood is major theme throughout the novel.
Edna is fighting against the societal and natural structures of motherhood that force her to be defined by her title as wife of Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and Etienne Pontellier, instead of being her own, self-defined individual. Through Chopin’s focus on two other female characters, Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Edna’s options of life paths are exhibited.
These women are the examples that the men around Edna contrast her with and from whom they obtain their expectations for her. Edna, however, finds both role models lacking and begins to see that the life of freedom and individuality that she wants goes against both society and nature. The inevitability of her fate as a male-defined creature brings her to a state of despair, and she frees herself the only way she can, through suicide.
The answer is B) It shows that Enrique is resourceful
Answer:
<u>D. "I must think over things for myself and get to understand them."</u>
Explanation:
Living by what other people say, or think and what books say is living a lie because it is not based on what the character really thinks or wants.
Thinking thinks over by herself is being truthfull to the ideas and wishes she can built, and no longer by what other people tell her to do. Being more than a wife and a mother, means there is more to Nora in life than those things.
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
<span>And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... </span>
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
<span>As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. "</span>
