What is the theme in The Awakening, and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin?

One major theme in the novel is that of immaturity. Edna is immature in that she flouts convention, lacks the necessary qualities to be a mother, and humiliates her husband without a second thought.

Robert Lebrun also represents this immaturity in the way he treats women without a care for their reputations, their husbands, or even his own reputation in society.