In Chopin’s The Awakening Edna, the main protagonist has to deal with the pressure from her husband, Mr. Pontellier Edna valued her own life and believed the way Mr.Pontellier was treating her and his expectations of her were unfair. Since Mr.Pontellier expected Edna to care for their children and himself so much that the care for herself was no longer possible. This “overtaking” of her soul was against Edna’s values which led to her sacrifice her life to protect her own values which illuminates the deeper meaning of the book as a whole. Edna believed that she should have say in her life as a woman and be seen as an equal to her husband. She commited suicide and sacrificed her life because she was no longer going to allow her husband to completely
