21 February 2018: "Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions." --Kate Chopin, The Awakening
We start The Awakening in my ENGL 360 class on Friday. A couple of students who have read it before are wary of going back. I get it. I hated this book the first few times I read it. Now it's one of my favorites. The quotation above is a small explanation of why.
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