The Awakening - Love

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  • The Awakening Love
    • Relationships
      • Robert
        • Chapter 16 "The sentiment which she entertained for Robert in now way resembled that which she felt for her husband, or had ever felt, or ever expected to feel."
          • Leoncé
            • Chapter 3 "She could not have told why she was crying, such experiences were not uncommon in her married life.
            • Chapter 1 "looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property."
            • Chapter 5 "the Creole husband is never jealous."
            • Chapter 8 "Léonce Pontellier was purely an accident... The acme of bliss, which would have been a marriage with a tragedian, was not for her in this world."
        • Chapter 9 "If your attentions to any married women here were ever convincing you would not be the gentleman we all know you to be."
        • Chapter 16 "Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the colour, the meaning out of everything."
      • Arobin
        • Chapter 25 "He possessed a good figure, a pleasing face, not overburdened with depth of thought or feeling; and his dress was that of the conventional man of fashion
        • Chapter 31 "He did not answer, except to caress her. He did not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties."
      • Leoncé
        • Chapter 3 "She could not have told why she was crying, such experiences were not uncommon in her married life.
        • Chapter 1 "looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property."
        • Chapter 5 "the Creole husband is never jealous."
        • Chapter 8 "Léonce Pontellier was purely an accident... The acme of bliss, which would have been a marriage with a tragedian, was not for her in this world."
    • Self Love
      • Chapter 1 "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi" [Get out, get out] forshadowsEdna's awakening and shows her entrapment in her marriage.
      • Chapter 6 "She handled her brushes with a certain ease and freedom which came... from a natural aptitude"
      • Chapter 10 "She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before."
      • Chapter 14 "She could only realise that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self."
      • Chapter 16 "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."
    • Motherhood
      • chapter 3 "If it was not a mother's place to look after her children, whose on earth was it?"
      • Chapter 4 "Mrs Pontellier was not a mother-woman."
      • Chapter 8 "It seemed to free her of a responsibility which had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her."
      • Chapter 16 "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."

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