Dialectical journals for the awakening
Dialectical Journals
Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers. (pg.10)
At this moment in time Edna look at her children not as flesh and blood, but she sees them the same way she sees her ring. A bond to matrimony and not as an item that represents love, and she begins to realize that she doesn’t like the setting she find herself in. But this has never bothered her before and wonders why what she previously loved no longer brings love to her.
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.” (pg.29)
Edna was beginning to realize that she needed to live out her own life, one separate from the life that she has always grow up around but due to the fact that she doesn’t know what to do with these feelings and desires, or has witnessed someone that is like minded to her she begins slowly give up on her current life and start pursuing her desires. And piece by piece Edna begins building her own individual instead of one that has been cast in iron by the society that puts all women in a specific role.
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” (pg. 148)
The life of catering to her husband and children, the role she had assumed in the beginning is being torn asunder. Since she realizes it is not her life but the life that is expected of her without fail. To devote her life to her family, put aside personal goals and desires, but Edna rejected this after she became “self-aware” in a sense. She realized she could do more with her life than she had realized all thanks to the day at the beach with Robert.
Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers. (pg.10)
At this moment in time Edna look at her children not as flesh and blood, but she sees them the same way she sees her ring. A bond to matrimony and not as an item that represents love, and she begins to realize that she doesn’t like the setting she find herself in. But this has never bothered her before and wonders why what she previously loved no longer brings love to her.
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.” (pg.29)
Edna was beginning to realize that she needed to live out her own life, one separate from the life that she has always grow up around but due to the fact that she doesn’t know what to do with these feelings and desires, or has witnessed someone that is like minded to her she begins slowly give up on her current life and start pursuing her desires. And piece by piece Edna begins building her own individual instead of one that has been cast in iron by the society that puts all women in a specific role.
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” (pg. 148)
The life of catering to her husband and children, the role she had assumed in the beginning is being torn asunder. Since she realizes it is not her life but the life that is expected of her without fail. To devote her life to her family, put aside personal goals and desires, but Edna rejected this after she became “self-aware” in a sense. She realized she could do more with her life than she had realized all thanks to the day at the beach with Robert.