Edna Pontellier’s Broken Wings in Kate Chopins The Awakening :: Chopin Awakening Essays

Broken Wings in The Awakening Between the caged parrot with a huge cage outside(a) the door that repeated Get away Get away eternal damnation and Mr. Pontellier s rebuke to his wife that she was burnt beyond recognition, and the description of him flavor at his wife as a valuable piece of individualized property which has suffered some damage. the antenna went up. There is not a welcome beckon in the very beginning and we are alerted to the dysfunction of a marriage all with a page or two. It is a reprehensible beginning. The introduction of Robert Lebrun along with Edna sets up the triangle. We are told that Robert talked a good negociate about himself. He was very young, and did not know any better. Mrs. Pontellier talked a little more about herself for the same reason. Each was interested in what the other said. Robert from the onset has plans although he and Edna talk she has none. When Mr. Pontellier returns from Kleins hotel and awakens Edna, with criticism about her sustentation of the children , after a night out with the boys. We begin to see him as thoughtless and as eligible as Edna for the same criticism. She goes into the adjoining bedchamber and cries. This indifference on the part of her husband triggers, An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. At this point the antenna were up and the storey began to accelerate. We are told that Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother woman. The mother women in the story are easy to know they (were) fluttering about with extended, protecting go when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They grew wings as ministering angels. I noticed along with the caged birds in the opening of the story the form of bird images throughout. It is Mademoiselle Reisz that tells Edna, The bird that would soar above the level field of operations of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a grim spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.Edna refers to her new home as the pigeon-house. It sprightly her. It at once assumed the intimate character of a home, piece she herself invested it with charm which it reflected like a warm glow.