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by Kate Chopin

The Awakening was published in 1899, and it immediately created a controversy. Kate Chopin's contemporaries were shocked by her depiction of a woman with active sexual desires, who dares to leave her husband and have an affair. Instead of condemning her protagonist, Chopin maintains a neutral…

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Posted By ashley c #239471 at Mar 26, 2012 3:45 PM

Why does Edna get involved with Alce Arobin?

She truly falls in love with robert but she uses Alce as her sexual lover.

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