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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (421)	8/28/2001 7:19:14 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 466

In The Awakening, Kate Chopin's female committed suicide because she had no other options that she could even envision. Women HAD to have a man to have a whole life. The women writers of that day often had to take extreme steps to be accepted as such; it was hard to write when living the "normal" life of the day. They lived "in sin" or they never married, and even then their writing was seen as a sort of also-ran life. Stepping over the husband is a wonderful symbolic act. Of course, the author herself actually took control and eventually her writing apparently persuaded even her own doctor to change his techniques, but I do wonder what poor "Anne" did. One assumes that John eventually came to and had her locked up somewhere, perhaps in the attic. And then he married Jenny- who had secretly been putting psychotropic drugs in Anne's gruel.