I've always meant to read this book because it's kind of part of the "feminist canon," and even though others I know who have read it found it remarkably dull, I thought I could at least appreciate it in its historical context.But that didn't stop it from being dead boring.Now, there were moments wh...
~~Moved from GR~~ Edna Pontellier starts out as an ordinary housewife with a kindly husband and two children. Her life is insipid and dull, but see that she is contented in it only because she knows nothing else. However, when she falls in love with Robert Lebrun, she awakens to her latent sexuali...
Often I have witnessed women, who proceed to talk about misogyny, sexism, or state their views on a piece of feminist literature, starting their discourse with something along the lines of 'I'm not much of a feminist...but'. As if it is best to put a considerable distance between themselves and this...
Looking at these two works now, one is so struck by the similarities, it is remarkable to consider their differing fates at the time of their appearance. As it happens I finished reading The Awakening the same day as I went to see Strange Interlude, so the points of comparison stood out. Both are Am...
This book is so short and over-simplified that I read it twice and it saved my life. Knowing it would appear as a question on a final exam, I zeroed in on its fatal flaw, as metaphor for the fatal turn studies in the humanities had taken at universities. Weeks later, my professor tried to shake my h...
In a hearing I observed once, the husband testified that he had tried to have his wife served with his petition for divorce in the Costco parking lot. The wife went running across the parking lot to avoid service, and her eight- and ten-year-old kids ran after her, dodging traffic and jumping into ...
This was a difficult book to get through, despite the rather short chapter lengths. The subject matter was of a deep soulful tone and carries the reader through the awakening of Edna and drags them under with her as he comes to some important realizations.
The only redeeming feature I found is the righteous deed Robert Lebrun does by letting Edna go. Even though most readers and I would [i]love[/i] a hero who takes action by eloping with the woman, it's a different case here. Since I hated Edna she deservedly gets to be rejected by Robert. The ending ...
Reading this story was a pain in the neck. All I could think was, "Dumb! Da Dumb! Da DUUUMMMB!" I know the author set Edna up as a flawed tragic character, and boy, was she really flawed. This is not a character that I would ever claim for feminism. I honestly hope feminists are a bit smarter than t...
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