Kate Chopin in Context pp 119-122 | Cite as
The “I Hate Edna Club”
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Abstract
The Awakening had barely been published, in April 1899, when the first stirrings of Ednaphobia—the morbid fear and hatred of Edna Pontellier—began. The very first review, essentially a plot summary in Kate Chopin’s hometown St. Louis Republic, called The Awakening “the story of a lady most foolish” and concluded that “the woman who did not want anything but her own way drowned herself” (Toth 220).
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African American Student Battered Woman Book Club Plot Summary Extramarital Affair
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Works Cited
- Koloski, Bernard. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
- Toth, Emily. Unveiling Kate Chopin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.Google Scholar
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© Heather Ostman and Kate O’Donoghue 2015