Posted by Kristi Vang (67.174.158.14) on July 11, 2005 at 5:02:25 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: Question Two: The Awakening posted by Katie Hartman on July 11, 2005 at 4:43:49 p.m.:
Katie,
I am unclear as to what you mean when state "They did not have to be civially dead according to law after they were married." As I understand "The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments," it appears that women could not be property holders at that time. Edna, some fifty years later, apparently was able to buy and hold property which was ironically title the "pigeon house."
Kristi
>"The Awakening" seems to portray the Sentiments to a tee. Edna is the only women who goes against what women have endured for years. "The Awakening" showed women that they could fight for equal rights. They did not have to be civially dead according to the law after they were married. Enda is surrounder by all of this and rejects it completly. Edna is even making her own money through her paintings she sells. She does not give the money to her husband, she buys her own house to live in. She does use some of her husband's money, but she does support herself with her own.