Yeah I know I know, I'm a slacker.
I haven't blogged in ages.
and I think I am so far behind that writing them now will do me no good.
Therefore, In this one blog I am going to write about the end of The Awakening.
Okay.
The end of the Awakening. Edna dies...in the ocean... surprise surprise. Stupid ocean....how fitting?
Anyway.
She drowns the ocean. Earlier when she swims out, she finds it empowering to do something that no women has done before, and to go beyond her comfort zone. So I find it fitting that she drowns while doing something she finds empowering. The way she decided to change her life and live basically as a creole man, was empowering to her. What she couldn't understand or comprehend was that she could not keep up both this new lifestyle and her old. Trying to keep up both, and not knowing what she wanted led to her mental downfall. So then when she was swimming, something also empowering, she swam passed her limits, and couldn't handle it, and drowned. The main thing that I was discussing with myself in my head as I was reading was, Is it a suicide? or was it accidental. I can't decide if she swam out on purpose with the intention of swimming until she drown or if she swam out for the feeling of the empowerment and got caught up and swam too far and drown... OR did she swim out with the intention of empowerment, and then decide in the middle of it to let herself swim further and drown. or i guess she could have gone out for empowerment and then realized she was out too far, and then decided not to turn around.. but that is similar to the third one. I am leaning towards the third one.
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I agree that the ending is confusing. I don't think she swam out meaning to drown. I think she thought that swimming would make her happy again and give her soem feeling of control over her life like it did before, but she was too depressed for it to really do that for her. And then I think she got tired (physically and emotionally) and just gave up. She didn't try to kill herself; she was just too exhausted to try and prevent it from happening, if that makes sense.
(I haven't blogged in forever either, which is why I'm commenting now)
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