In the book The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier is a character who is entrapped both externally and internally.

Edna Pontellier is trapped both by who she is externally and internally. Edna resists against her natural temptation to be unmotherly when others are around, she marries a Creole, which she is not, and throughout the whole book is fighting to abandon her unknown psychological identity and discover her true one. The origin of this information is from The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin and published in 1899. Edna Pontellier's attitude causes her to not fit …

…creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known."(Page 152) In conclusion, Edna Pontellier is trapped inside herself and her surroundings constantly. She is trapped in an unwanted mother figure and in a society which consisted of something she is not; Creoles. Most importantly though, she is trapped inside of her self; Edna is always struggling to discover what she is and in what world she belongs until the very end.