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 * ​Issues Against American Women**

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The Awakening// (page 1 through page 157)

Women back in this time period were held accountable for raising the children and making sure that everything in the house ran smoothly. In addition, their husbands held them on short leashes. The women had to do everything her husbad told her to do for he was head of the house and the bread winner. Women rarely were alowed to give their opions or express themselves in any way. The society in which they lived viewed women in the same way. That was the way things were and everyone went along with it. Having a name, being walthty, and developing a social life meant everything. If a woman were to act out in a way her husband and or the society felt was not suitable to the way a woman should act, she and her family were outcasted from the social life; which back then ment everything.

In the novel //The Awakening, Edna Pontellier// lived the way every woman lived back then. Until one day something inside her awoke. She then had a differnt view on the way she wanted to live. Edna wanted to be independent and have freedom of self expression. Due to the fact that woman beack then did not act in such a mannor, Edna drifted away from her social life and even her family in order to gain the independence and the freedom she so desperately wanted.