If you’ve been following along with my reading of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, thank you! It’s the longest work we’ve attempted to tackle to date and I appreciate your willingness to go on this ride with me. I trust that it’s been worth it. To that end, I present to you my unspooling of The Awakening. What follows is a half hour of analysis that I hope touches on most of the important themes and qualities we encountered in the story.
So come join me, as we end our recent dalliance with Chopin by unspooling her most important story and its significance.
As always, I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. There’s much to be said about this work, as well as the important topics and themes it plays with. If you have a thoughtful contribution to that conversation, I’d love to know what stood out to you.
Happy listening in the days ahead,
c.d.
And if you need to catch up—no worries! I gotchu:
the unspooling podcast - The Awakening by Kate Chopin (chapters I-XX)
Here it is, good listener—the first half of my reading of Kate Chopin’s masterpiece, The Awakening. The narrative is a nice, slow burn. Chopin takes great care to set up the plot and characters with precision. If you enjoy character-driven works, then this one’s for you.
the unspooling podcast - The Awakening by Kate Chopin, pt. 2 (chapters XXI-XXX)
Alright, dear listener… This week, we resume our reading of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. (Thankfully, with a shorter episode than last time—more on that in the intro.) The tension escalates dramatically on all fronts during this portion of the narrative—and just when you think that things can’t get any messier, Chopin says, “Hold my beer,” and rolls up …
the unspooling podcast - The Awakening by Kate Chopin, pt. 3 (chapters XXXI-XXXIX)
Here it is, good listeners! The remarkable conclusion to The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It’s all come down to this… Edna Pontellier’s awakening is in full bloom and Chopin continues to ratchet up the tension, while also reeling us in with an intimate view of spectacular, lively characters, whom we have come to know and love through the narrative. With Ed…
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