Evaluation of Mother-Women in Chopin’s The Awakening :: Chopin Awakening

Evaluation of Mother-Women in Chopins The modify In short, Mrs. Pontellier was non a mother-woman. The mother women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting go when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their hubbys, and prise it a holy privilege to ef nervus themselves as individuals and grow locomote as ministering nonesuchs. (p.29) She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart she would sometimes forget them. The year before theyhad spent split up of the summer with their grandmother Pontellier in Iberville. Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welf atomic number 18, she did not miss them except with an occasional intense longing. Their absence was a crystallize of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself. It seemed to free her of a certificate of indebtedness which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her. (p. 40) Reading the above devil passages it is clear that Mrs. Pontellier feels she is different from other mothers. She is not a mother-woman. Those maternal beings are angels who flutter about and protect their children, even if they are in no danger. They are not flesh and blood women with lives of their own. Surely they moldiness train begun life that way, but the passage claims that as they minister to their children they grow locomote and become angels. Mrs. Pontelliers engagement of words such as minister, angel and worship must mean that she thinks of motherhood as a religion. era the description of these mother-women might imply that they are angelic and selfless, in universe their identity (and existence) depends upon their husband and children. They exist only in a familial context. Without their children they would be nothing. If their children are in no real danger, then the mother-women must imagine a threat in order to justify their existence. The use of the word efface is strong and telling. It literally means to remove the face. The reader gathers that neither Mrs. Pontellier nor Kate Chopin admires this type of woman. In order to be socially acceptable in Kate Chopins time, one certainly needed a husband to have children. Neither of these passages directly refers to Mr. Pontellier. However, since Mrs. Pontellier is not a mother-woman, the reader mess assume that she does not therefore worship her husband.