Free Awakening Essays: A Reader Response :: Chopin Awakening Essays

A Reader Response to The wake up I had not read The Awakening before, and these notes are on a real first reading , and as a result deal mostly with my emotional response and thoughts on the style and general content of the story, I enjoyed the language and the texture of the writing. The baneful characterizations were done advantageously, although the introduction of the characters seemed a bit unclear at time. The unenrgetic pace of the novel seem to fit the story and location of the live up to on one level, but seemed at odds with the violent, brash , stung nature of the emotional heart of the novel, Ednas trying to connect to her current self. I a great deal found myself wanting things to move on. At times the writing reminded me of Hemingway(of all people) in its description of eating and drinking , low-down pull throughs that tell a lot about a character, and frequent practise of French or Spanish phrases within the text Robert rolled a cigarette. He smoked ciga rettes because he could not afford cigars,... (44) She was hungry again, for the Highcamp dinner, though of excellent quality, had lacked abundance. She rummaged in the larder and brought forth a slice of Gruyere and few crackers. She opened a bottle of beer... (116) Well, good-by, a jeudi,...(108) The sun was low in the west and the breeze was soft and warm.(53) But unlike Hemingway, I often got the feeling that Chopin did not trust either her writing and the images and metaphors she used, or the proofreader to understand her more subtle sections. She seemed to feel often that she had to go affirm and tell the reader what a certain image or action really meant , as if we wouldnt understand. It was difficult, especially at first, to identify with Edna. I thought at first that this woman just had too oft time to think and little else to do with her life,(Which ultimately might be Chopins point). A woman with so little to really raise up about, in the context that most of us ha ve free-and-easy problems, mostly of a material kind, to take up our thoughts. Also. her reaction to her children,(as well as her husbands), made me feel for them.(This was the first thought that came into my mind when Edna walked into the ocean. Is decision freedom for our soul synonymous with freedom from our responsibilities?