The awakening questions
1. what role or purpose does love have in this book?
2. how does kate chopin use other characters, both male and female, in the awakening in order to illustrate edna pontellier’s desires and social limitations? choose at least three characters whose very presence in the novel illuminates edna’s character and analyze how this contrast works.
3. what does madame ratignolle mean when she says to robert of edna: “she is not one of us; she is not like us” (chapter 8). in what ways is edna different? what instances are there where edna’s outsider role affects or hinders her participation in the creole society?