simply don't like the protagonist

I didn't intend to criticize this book in any meaningful way. Sorry to disappoint you.

同意，个人意见不同就一堆人跳出来说肤浅，服了

This is not about depth while it's about the correct understanding of the story. You can brag about anything you want of how Edna is having an affair with Robert and her sexual relationship with Alcee. What you don't realize is that her ultimate awakening is not about Robert. If you think about the story, when she thinks about Robert at the end, she knows Robert is going to be gone anyway like those men she liked before. She is noting trying to be with Robert but she is trying to be herself: decide for herself, free herself and own herself. If you don't understand her ultimate awakening with so little evidence to support your claim, I personally don't think you criticize this book in any meaningful way.

我觉得我最好还是别awaken了。特别高兴我没有。

You are simply not awakened.

我是觉得，一本名著是可以有好多人对其有不同观点的，没人说名著就全天下人都应该说其又好又有意义吧？唉，我就随便就一本草草读了一遍的书表达了一点负面观点，就跳出来一堆人说我读得不深刻，多肤浅多pathetic。我怎么就不觉得我读得深刻了观点就一定会改变。尤其是对于楼上上的Martin来说。为什么所有的书都要读到多深刻多烂熟于心分析多少背景之后才可以发表观点呢？文科生真矫情。

我觉得不同的人读起来会有不同的感想，用现代的眼光看，的确就是不道德的，但是在当时那个女性主义并未解放的时候，这本书的意义就不只你看到的这么多了。

What a pathetic understanding! First of all, I strongly suggest you read in depth. One way to do so is to know a little bit about the background of this story, such as the identity of Creole men and women's role at that time period. Also, you should pay more attentions to how Chopin employs different literary elements in describing Edna's awakening because that will help you understand what Edna has truly waked up from. After you're no longer reading superficially or even unclearly about the plot, you won't have such a negative comment. This book is not simply about a women's violation of her morality; however, if you insistently hold up the thought that having an extramarital relationship is equivalent to the violation of one's morality, then there is not so much to discuss the significance of this book, including its indispensable contribution to the creation of a new discourse for female sexuality and to the sprout of women's right movement at the turn of the 19th century.

well written， anyway

对不起看到你说你上大学就脑补了课因为我现在修的literature course这个确实是course material囧
我po完就反应过来是脑补的，但那时已经把窗口关了就懒得再找出来删了 ╮(╯▽╰)╭

亲，我就是自己出于兴趣读的，没教授要求我读。这本书难道只有放入文学课的列表中才会被读吗？

^ That

seriously lz... your reading of the story is way too simplistic. I hope the prof of whichever course you read this for expounded on this piece. Otherwise you may as well read Danielle Steele...

Edna's awakening is never about Robert. It's not about craving for a young man who might satisfy her sexual awakening, which is part of her awakening as well. Robert was there and might have sped up the awakening process, but it was never the craving for this man that led Edna to give up her entire "normal" life.

"In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her."

The awakening was never limited to the sexual awakening. It is the awakening of a woman who realizes her own power, her own independence. Once awoke, she could never be oblivious to what's around her ever again. She realized what has made her suffer and that all the past years she lived a "dreaming" life.

"At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life --the outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions". The awakening part had always been inside her.

"A feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant importance had been given her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength... She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before."

"...in sparing yourself you never consider for a moment what I think, or how I feel your neglect and indifference. I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself."

If you read it from the angel of women's literature, you might be able to find that this "boring" love affair story is never about love, at all.

By the way, would you please refer to the dictionary that "judgement" is indeed a correct spelling, in British way. And I always prefer British English. Sorry that we use different system and you are unwilling to know more about the other system. Thank you for reminding me that I should set up restriction in reading my blog.

thanks for correcting. My blog is personal, and you can choose not to read it, but I have the right to write whatever I like. It helps to keep one mentally healthy.

It's "judgment," not judgement. Mind your p's and q's. Do you think it is polite to discuss other's personal life in your blog?

Well then, maybe that is because you've been through much more than I do. When I'm still a university student and hold a high expectation for marriage life, it is indeed hard for me to ignore moral judgement when I'm reading the book.

I've found a lot of resonance in the book. Moral judgment doesn't apply to such a poignant and realistic story.