The Awakening of Love This novella takes place on the muggy sub tropical Isle of Grand just south of the state of Louisiana. This particular Gulf island was for the creole’ elite. The Awakening focuses on a particular woman named Edna and her life’s endeavors in the late eighteen hundreds. The novella features wives that feel enslaved, mistreated, and wives that are content with there expectancies of being a woman of the south. The …showed first 75 words of 1404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1404 total…she has swam out to far on purpose to drown her guilty mind, body, and soul. She feels this is the only way to free herself from the feelings of being possessed, and this will redeem the character of her husband and children. In summation, Edna is like many women, just searching for a way out of the trapping lifestyle of being subservient to a man that she once loved but now has altered feelings.