The Awakening

The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
read: 2019
Guardian 1000 Novels

I read this in preparation for a trip to New Orleans. The novel caught a little of that city's flavor but was mostly set in the vacation area Grand Isle. I'm sympathetic to the idea Edna Pontellier felt that she couldn't be her authentic self, but her circumstances and actions are hard to relate to more than a hundred years after the novel was first published. It probably doesn't help that I'm a man, either.