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THE AWAKENING: Revisiting Edna Pontellier

By Lucia On February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This post contains major plot spoilers for Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

Some books are full of memories. For example, I can’t think of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe without remembering the little reading cubbyhole that I made in my mom’s closet, when I was around 8 years old. I vividly recall [...]

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