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cassianlamb 's review for:
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
The beginning is incredibly boring. So boring, in fact, that if I was not assigned this book for a class, I'd have abandoned it.
The writing itself was almost as breathtakingly bad as the Hunger Games. There was over description, extra details no one would normally even notice (even outside the descriptions), and so much repetition of felt like the author knew her audience was losing interest.
Edna, our main character, got a little better as the story goes on. By that, I mean she becomes slightly interesting, instead of the crying woman introduced at the beginning. But that's really it.
Robert started out simply amazing. Yeah, he might be despicable at first for the fact that he's flirting with a married woman, but he was just so much better than Mr. Pontellier that it's easy to forgive him. His ending, though, was really out of character. He did so much, and achieved his wildest dreams, and yet he threw it out the window the second he got scared. That was not the character I liked, and it just felt like such a waste.
Furthermore, that is the final straw in Edna's slide. She was depressed before, due to society, I know, but having THAT placed so soon afterwards? This novel was meant to be feminist; in fact, for the time period, it was so radical even women's rights moves frowned on it. At least, that's the reason we were told in the edition I read. If anything, it might have been the fact that she was finally independent, and then grew DEPRESSED SUPPOSEDLY BECAUSE OF IT, and then committed SUICIDE WHEN HER BOYFRIEND DUMPED HER! Was the caps lock really necessary, you might be asking? YES, because I am still (please forgive my language) pissed as hell with this book.
I do not see a reason it has to progress to suicide. And even if it did, I do not see how this is supposed to be a women's rights book when the main character kills herself at the end once she finally won, or why that also had to hinge on a man.
If you've read any of my other reviews on books, you know they're normally rants about how much I disliked them, so there's another one for the books.
The writing itself was almost as breathtakingly bad as the Hunger Games. There was over description, extra details no one would normally even notice (even outside the descriptions), and so much repetition of felt like the author knew her audience was losing interest.
Edna, our main character, got a little better as the story goes on. By that, I mean she becomes slightly interesting, instead of the crying woman introduced at the beginning. But that's really it.
Robert started out simply amazing. Yeah, he might be despicable at first for the fact that he's flirting with a married woman, but he was just so much better than Mr. Pontellier that it's easy to forgive him. His ending, though, was really out of character. He did so much, and achieved his wildest dreams, and yet he threw it out the window the second he got scared. That was not the character I liked, and it just felt like such a waste.
Furthermore, that is the final straw in Edna's slide. She was depressed before, due to society, I know, but having THAT placed so soon afterwards? This novel was meant to be feminist; in fact, for the time period, it was so radical even women's rights moves frowned on it. At least, that's the reason we were told in the edition I read. If anything, it might have been the fact that she was finally independent, and then grew DEPRESSED SUPPOSEDLY BECAUSE OF IT, and then committed SUICIDE WHEN HER BOYFRIEND DUMPED HER! Was the caps lock really necessary, you might be asking? YES, because I am still (please forgive my language) pissed as hell with this book.
I do not see a reason it has to progress to suicide. And even if it did, I do not see how this is supposed to be a women's rights book when the main character kills herself at the end once she finally won, or why that also had to hinge on a man.
If you've read any of my other reviews on books, you know they're normally rants about how much I disliked them, so there's another one for the books.