The Awakening ends with Edna venturing on and on into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico until her arms and legs [grow] tired and she drowns. What is your understanding of this ending: has Edna deliberately committed suicide, or has she wondered (without fully realizing it) too far from the shore, and therefore, accidently dies a victim of her own carelessness? Like the overall tone of the novel, Kate Chopin leaves this matter somewhat open-ended, full of dreamy, impressionistic musings and conjectures . why might a writer of Chopins stature and skill purposely leave her conclusion so ambiguous? A famous and important feminist scholar-critic, Sandra M. Gilbert, has argued that Ednas death is the triumph of the female through the power of the pagan; that Edna rejects the confining oppression of the ideal of Christian Motherhood (the social norm for Creole femininity) and replaces it by relight[ing] the flame of Aphrodite, holy name. Is Gilberts reading/interpretation (pp 253-64) convincing? Why? Why not? Has Gilbert pushed the girl-power line of reasoning too far, granting Edna a fully formed consciousness and individual agency which she has not yet achieved/ that is, has Gilberts feminist agenda perhaps skewed her reading and understanding of Ednas character?
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