Awakening

For my final project I will be creating a wiki page for Kate Chopin's The Awakening. The fall narrative is Edna Pontellier's awakening during her vacation at Grand Isle. She becomes more in tune with herself, falling from the highly rigid social world to which she belonged. This mimics the fall of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost, when they gain knowledge from eating the fruit and realizing their nakedness. Edna's fall is also correlated to Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, as it is a growing-up process, recognizing the stupidity of social rules and manners.