measuring his (or her) moral responsibility" (Webster 1705). "No one really knows why human beings

commit suicide. Indeed, the very person who takes his (or her) own life may be least aware at the moment of

decision of the essence of his (or her) reasons and emotions for doing so. At the outset, it can be said that a

dozen individuals can kill themselves and "do" (or commit) 12 psychologically different deeds"

(Encyclopaedia Britannica, 385). Suicide is written about in a variety of novels, short stories, and movies.

Suicide moves like an undercurrent in the sea of themes of The Awakening. The possibility of suicide and

even the idea of death darkens the story, making Edna's emotional ups and downs dangerous - her occasional

misery leads her to subconsciously think of suicide. She holds the hopelessness at bay by moving out and

getting her own apartment, while trying to find a man who will accept her, but in the end she succumbs.

Edna's closest physical brush with death occurs one night at the beach, when the summer reside

She has a "quick vision of death". The experience scares her, but she has tested her limits and survived the sea

the very end when she finally drifts away. She could have chosen sleeping pills as her method of death, but

however, Robert only leaves her a note that reads, "I love you. Good-by - because I love you." (Chopin,

she returns to the beach because of its memories of the summer, and the men in her life. Her near-death

Alece Arobin. He is a disreputable man-about-town who draws Edna out to the horse races. For a moment,

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