Status Updates From The Awakening

“The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days. But she knew a way to elude them.”

“One of these days,” she said. “I’m going to pull myself together for a while and think——try to determine what character of a woman I am: for candidly, I don’t know.”

“Why do you love him when you ought not to?”

“Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can’t straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because-“

“Because you do, in short….”

“He was ready at all times to submit to her moods…”

Okay so like where’s a man like that for me 🤨

“The thought was passing vaguely through her mind: “What would he think?” She did not mean her husband; she was thinking of Robert Lebrun.“

“She realized that she had neglected her reading, and determined to start anew upon a course of improving studies, now that her time was completely her own to do with as she liked.”

“She says a wedding is one the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband!”

“That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

“He had told her he had often noticed that she lacked forethought.”

“Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.”

“ She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”

“Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.”

“Add to this the violent opposition of her father and her sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we need seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier for her husband.”

“He fell in love, as men are in the habit of doing….”

Too tired to continue for the night 😔

“…looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.”

in my head this is wlw