![]() ![]() The use of dialect is not overly intrusive (compare "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and a host of grade-B writings from the period up through the 1950s).SPOILER ALERTThe self-indulgent protagonist seems never to have outgrown her youthful fantasies, and certainly made no effort to extend herself to understand her husband or care for her children (which she admitted).There have always been women with no desire to be encumbered by a family (her family removed her from a convent at some age, if I remember rightly). Style: Chopin writes smoothly and easily, with succulent descriptive passages. The sentiments exhibited are conventional romances, although with wit and some insight.The novel "The Awakening" might better be termed "The Abandonment." I suggest that it was considered unacceptable as much for for its denigration of the roles of wife and mother, as for the restrained sensuality and "coded" adultery, although I'm sure Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn would have disapproved of the book. ![]() Substance: The short stories are entertaining, in the 19th century style, with interesting views of the Louisiana Creole milieu. ![]()
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