The Awakening
The Awakening
Much has been written about Kate Chopin’s defiant women, however, very little has been written about Chopin’s defiant men (Brown). Some of these characters have experiences that parallel those of the women. Just as a woman in an intimate moment with a man awakens to an inner self buried beneath a culturally sanctioned social one, so does a man. Just as women defy social expectations for women in the Creole culture,
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