Posted by Michael Addy (66.205.140.92) on July 11, 2005 at 8:05:53 p.m.:
In Reply to: Question Two: The Awakening posted by Jeanne Guerin on July 8, 2005 at 8:55:01 a.m.:
Edna's transformation as an individual in the novel are among the goals sought by the "Declaration of Sentiments." Edna decides even among the hostility towards empowered women in her society, to never fall back and to become herself. I am greatly pleased to see how far our society has come since Edna's era in the area of women's rights. I can understand her decision to be her own person and move out, although even though it is not black and white morally in that while there is a great responsibility one must put on their actions and the impact they have on others, she never did have much of a decision given the era of marrying and having children in the first place. She lived a life that echoed the sentiments.