In the Awakening by Kate Chopin, the protagonsit, Edna feels entrapped in her Creole society because of the strict moral code placed on women; as ahe grows closer to the sea, she is reborn but when she is back on land to a society that demands she be a perfect mother-woman figures of the 1800's.
             The land reprsetns Ednas confinement on her cage. Like a "bird with a broken wing" that flutters in the air, Edna struggles throughout her awenkenings. On her first awkaneing, she realized that she is an indivual and that her actions affect her surrounding; however, Chopin makes it clear from the beiginging Edna is doomed sincr the narrator declears, "how many sould perish from its tumult." Edna's discovery is unique and she is, prehaps the only woan undergoing a spirtiual awakening. She no longer whishes to live up to societys rules and she defies it. Her first swim in the ocena shows her determination and ability to learn on her own; the help of relatove or friends was useless in teaching her how to swim. When she finally learns, she "totterered like a child..." In other words, Enda is reborn here and there.
             When Edan returesn back to shoew, she is determined to follow own jugement and no on eles. For instance the same night as her swim, when Leonce, her husband, tells her to come insdie for bed, she refues. She even moves out of her husbands house. proving to herseld that she is not another one of his possesions. But the piegon house, in itself, is only a temporary retreat; after all it is only a few steps away from her husband's home. In edna;s mind, if she moves to the piegon hosue, away from Roberts posessions, the she can futer her relationship with Robert Lebrun, the man she beleives she loves and has been having an affari with for considable time. But Enda's wings were 'not "stong" enought as her friend Reisz adivsed her the needed to be to riumph over "tradion and prejudice"
             Enda surrenders herself to the voices of ...