The awakening & other stories

by Kate Chopin

Edna Pontellier, married to a successful creole speculator from New Orleans, spends the summer on Grand Isle and falls in love. Her affair with Robert Lebrun awakens in her a new sense of spiritual and sexual self-awareness. This tale of a mixed marriage and adultery so shocked Kate Chopin's contemporaries that it effectively ended her literary career. Today, it is recognized as a masterpiece of American feminist literature. As well as the novella, The Awakening, this book contains fifteen of Chopin's short stories. --back cover

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Chappie’s discussion starters

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?