The end of Edna's Life Upon reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening, the first thought that entered my mind was, "why did this woman, Edna Pontellier, kill herself? Did she commit suicide because she could not be with her lover, Robert?" At first, I thought the leaving of Rober...

Faulkner portrayed Emily Grierson, not as a murderous madwoman, but as a desperate woman who lost everything. Her father, the only man in her life, kept her from marriage and happiness. Abandoned by her sweetheart and ostracized society after the family fortune was gone and her father died, she spen...