The Awakening

Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is nowadays considered to be one of the very first feminist titles of literature. Ironic, considering that in it's day it was rejected, the author failing at first to find a publisher willing to take a risky chance. Edna Pontellier is one of the most interesting female characters in the literature of her time, a wife and mothers who is powerful, dares to question and think about the values of family, marriage and motherhood. She is having an awakening, as the title said, an awakening amidst a society which is hostile by conventions and conventional by nature.