Today we began with a short warm up about the end of the novel (below) and then spent the rest of the period talking about The Awakening in a wide ranging fashion.
Consider the end of the novel. Does it have to end this way, or does Edna have another way out? Think particularly about the events leading up to her suicide: her final visit with Robert, her attendance at Adele’s labor and subsequent discussion with Dr. Mandelet, and finding the note from Robert upon her return to the pigeon house. How do these things lead her to make her fatal choice?
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