Premium Content Failure or Success: The Conflict over Edna Pontellier's Suicide
By Jordan Watkins - December 31, 2003
Much controversy surrounds the ending of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and for good reason; the novel can be used to support two completely opposing views. On one hand the suicide of Edna Pontellier can be seen as the ultimate culmination of Edna's awakening as she comes to see both herself and her place in reality and begins to fully and ultimately…
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