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In the Awakening, by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier is a married woman with children. However many of her actions seem like those of a child. In fact, Edna Pontelliers' life is an irony, in that her immaturity allows her to mature. Throughout this novel, there are many examples of this because Edna is continuously searching for herself in the novel. One example of how Edna's immaturity allows her to mature is when she starts to cry when LeƒVonce, her husband, says she is not a good mother. "He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?"(13). Edna, instead of telling her husband that she had taken care of her children, began to cry like a baby after her husband reprimanded her. "Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a littleKshe thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms,"(13,14). These tears made Edna look as if she was still a child and that she is tired of being treated as a child by her husband. These tears also showed her she did not like where she was, a sign of maturity. H
------------------------------------------------------------------------ In conclusion, for Edna Pontellier to mature, she had to first act immaturely which made Edna's life a complete paradox, continually contradicting itself. "The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitudeKthe water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace,"(189). Edna ended her life in the sea, her final awakening. One more example of how Edna's immaturity allows her to mature is by the way that she allows her infatuation for Arobin to get in the way of her normal everyday life. She allows her infatuation for him to get in the way because she starts to listen to him more, and spend more time then she should with him. Her husband despises him, yet Edna continues to act immaturely and still see him. Edna gets to a point in her infatuation of Arobin that she wishes she slept with him and she even dreams about it. "She regretted that she had not made Arobin stay a half hour to talk over the horses with herK it was no labor to become intimate with Arobin,"(126,127). That shows her immaturity even more so because she is a married woman. "It was Arobin that took her home. The car ride was long, and it was lateKhe filled his match safe, but did not light his cigarette until he left her, after she had expressed her willingness to go to the races with him again," (125). By her staying with ! er. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence,'" (179). Edna feels as if she has matured
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