NovelGuide: The Awakening: Novel Summary: Part 28

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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
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39

Chapter 28

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After Arobin leaves, Edna cries. This paragraph-long chapter explores her conflicted emotional reaction to the kiss, but the emotion that dominates is "understanding" of herself-a resolution to the question Edna contemplated in the previous chapter, "what character of woman I am." This note of "understanding" also harkens back to the book's repeating musical motif: si tu savais-"if you knew." Edna now does know who she is, and what life is, a "monster made up of beauty and brutality." Two emotions Edna does not feel are shame and remorse. Her only regret is that the kiss which sparked this emotional revelation had not been the kiss of true love.

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