American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1027 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Awakening*
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The idea
Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother summering on Grand Isle, learns to swim, falls in love, leaves her husband's house for a small one, and finds her freedom has nowhere to go. The novel of eighteen ninety-nine was attacked and forgotten.
In practice
A woman who learns to swim, and leaves.
Where people slip
The book was condemned and dropped from print.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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