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kill herself after exploring the existences of only two women similar to her. Today a person could probably find a successful model fitting their own desires almost perfectly. In the nineteenth century this wasn t the case. Women rarely attempted to spread their wings and embrace and kind of individualism, especially in the south. As we see, many women who did in fact aim for this ended up social outcasts like Mademoiselle Reisz. Edna had no one to look at, she had no idol to aspire to become like. Maybe today we take for granted all of the women who have achieved greatness and led the way for others. Maybe we take too much credit for our own achievements forgetting how important these other people were along the way. Without anyone there to prove that Edna was striving for

something attainable, there was nothing for her to do but end her life. If Edna had been born in a different time and had been faced with the same situation, it would have been a different story. 47f Hollister, Michael. Chopin s The Awakening. The Explicator 51.1 (1993) : 90-92 Showalter, Elaine. Sister s Choice: Tradition and change in American Women s Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Spangler, George. Ways of Interpreting Edna s Suicide. Kate Chopin Study Text Online. Neal Wyatt, 1993.