In Search of Edna's New Self:An Analysis on the Female Identity Construction in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

In Kate Chopin's The Awakening,Edna Pontellier's awakening is the search of her new self and the gradual unleashing of her latent desire.The open ending of this novel represents the tragic victory of the late-nineteenth-century women in the process of their identity formation.In modern perspective,the conflicts in social context and the stimuli in Edna's daily life inspire and accelerate the heroine's self-awareness,which embody the interaction among literature,social changes and the female identity construction.