Short Blog #8 (The Awakening)

The quote “Today it is Arobin; tomorow it will be some one else. It makes no difference to me, it doesn’t matter about Léonce Pontellier—but Raoul and Etienne!” struck me because this shows that Edna has now finally realized who she is and what will happen if she doesn’t control her inner self that was revealed when she went swimming in the ocean. Why this quote is important in the novel is because this is huge, especially for Edna. Ever since she found out about her true inner self at the ocean that summer at Grand Isles, she’s been selfish around her family and not so open to her friends. I’m glad she now realizes that even though she doesn’t care about her husband, she needs to be there for the children, even if she doesn’t have an emotional attachment to them as a mother. Her friend Adèle’s plea to “remember the children” made Edna sacrifice her recently found inner self in order to keep her children.