NovelGuide: The Awakening: Novel Summary: Part 27

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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26		 Chapter 27
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Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39

Chapter 27

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That evening, as he strokes her hair, Edna tells Arobin about a comment Mademoiselle Reisz made comparing Edna to a weak bird, "exhausted, fluttering back to earth." Edna claims to only "half comprehend" what Reisz meant. When Arobin responds that he has heard that Reisz is "partially demented," Edna responds that she thinks the pianist is "wonderfully sane." This question of sanity was introduced in the previous chapter as Edna wondered about Mr. Pontellier's response to her plan to move. It is, of course, a question with which the novel is greatly occupied: Is Edna sane to acquiesce to les convenances of her society, or is she sane to remain true to her own, awakening nature? When she kisses Arobin, the narrator tells us it is "the first kiss of [Edna's] life to which her nature had really responded."

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