The Awakening by Kate Chopin

I sometimes found the conclusion to the story to be hard to determine. In The Awakening Edna’s life would seem happy, like a typical life of a wife and a mother back then. But as you continue to read you realize how unhappy Edna is in her life. She feels that she is missing something. Although her husband provides all of the material things that he wants and her family needs, she is still very unhappy and feels a void in her life. She goes on a summer vacation and meets a man named Robert. Robert really likes Edna but seems to be a good man. Robert leaves and leaves Edna a note. She goes back home with her family and things do not feel the same. She distances herself from her husband and kids. She eventually leaves the big house and her family to go live in a small house alone. When she finds out that Robert has come back she is sure that the void that she feels will be gone because he is her true love. But as noted earlier he is a good man. He cannot live with knowing that he broke up her family. He refuses to be the cause of her families distance. So he leaves again. She then realizes that she will always be alone and no matter what she will continue to feel that void that her husband cannot fill.