The Awakening Post #2

While reading the novel, The Awakening, I realized that Mrs. Pontellier is very similar to Kate Chopin. Both Kate and the character she created are French woman. The novel explains her French background. Also they both have bad luck when it comes to relationships. Mrs. Pontellier is married to a man that she is not in love with. I believe that her marriage was arranged and there was never any feelings between them. Her husband does not care if she flirts and spends the night with other men. Kate Chopin had a healthy relationship at first but then, unfortunately, her husband passed away. This traumatic event led her to depression. They both seemed like very depressed people and this quote explains the way they feel. "There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why- when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation." (The Awakening) I have come to think that Kate Chopin expressed her feelings through Mrs. Pontellier.