The Awakening Quotes About Edna's Suicide

In the novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna is a married woman who abandons her family to achieve her goal of having freedom. The first part of the novel takes place in the Grand Isle, where she meets friends like Adele Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, and Robert. While at the Grand Isle Edna awakens to the fact that nobody can posses her while she was swimming. Robert and Edna have a very close relationship where the two of them are hanging around each other for a long period of time. Robert leaves for Mexico which causes Edna to become depressed. She returns home where she meets Arobin, who she had an affair with. She sent the children away and Adele was telling Edna not to act like a child. Robert comes back from Mexico and tells her that he loved her and wants to marry her. Robert leaves Edna because he loves her and that causes Edna to commit suicide. “Edna’s suicide represents her final attempt to escape -to escape her children, her lovers, and most important, time and change. For only by complete isolation of self can Edna be truthful to her inner life”(Susan Rosowski). Nobody what Edna did to try and escape her responsibilities never worked which led her to commit suicide. She can’t take
The sea makes Edna go into solitude so she can think about how she really is. “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation”(Chopin 13). This reinforces the idea that Edna finds solitude comfortable and that she realizes who she really is when she is isolated. The sea which is causing Edna to go into the state of being solitude lets her lose herself in “inward contemplation”. In other words when Edna is in solitude she is able to contemplates one's own emotions, mistakes, thoughts, beliefs, views, and