Posted by Kim Mraz (130.86.26.160) on July 11, 2005 at 6:01:11 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: Question Two: The Awakening posted by Katie Hartman on July 11, 2005 at 4:43:49 p.m.:
>"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.
I agree with your reply saying that Edna is the only one that tries to become her own person and not some sort of property. Each person is special and not a peice of meat. Through this novel we learn to appreciate all that women did during the times when the women and some men were creating "The Declararion of Sentiment."