I believe Shmoop came up in Thursday's class. Mr. Noll informed me last fall of Shmoop's literature guides and teacher resources, but like most things, it slipped under the radar. This is my favourite description from the "Why You Should Care" opener for The Awakening
Nowadays, Edna would be an artist – you know, paint always under her fingernails. She’d dig smocked dresses and the skinny jeans trend. Not to mention sexual liberation. But in The Awakening, Edna drowns. And that, more than anything else, tells you why you should care.
Even if you didn't have to read this book, wouldn't the mention of skinny jeans and sexual liberation get you to pick it up? Ok, maybe not...
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The painting featured in this post is titled The Awakening Conscience by William Holman Hunt
It was painted fifty years before Chopin wrote her novel, but could easily serve as a representation of Edna Pontellier.
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