"Edna's suicide represents her final attempt to escape-to escape her children, her lovers, and most important, time and change. For only by complete isolation of self can Edna be truthful to her inner life." -Susan Rosowski.

Throughout the novel "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin, the protagonist of the story, Edna Pontellier, spends her time trying to escape things in her life-her husband, her home, her responsibilities to her family, and society's expected role of women. Edna escapes her marriage and her home by moving into her own home, the "pigeon-house," and having an affair. She then attempts to escape responsibilities to her family in situations such as when Léonce, Edna's husband, believes one of their sons to have a fever, but Edna will not get out of bed to take his temperature. Edna will not do as her husband desires and stay home on...