The Awakening By Kate Chopin The novel The Awakening takes place in the late 19th century during the Industrial Revolution and the Women's Rights Movement. The entire basis of the story is around the feminist movement and it quite crucial to the plot. The novel opens on Grand Isle, which was a popular summer vacation spot for the wealthy citizens of New Orleans. The story opens as Edna Pontellier is vacationing with her husband, Leonce, …showed first 75 words of 1676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1676 total…music show her own growth to the reader. The setting effected the theme a considerably amount. In any other time period, it would not have been possible for Edna to do express her independence, nor leave her husband. This was the time of the Women's Rights Movement, and many women were feeling this same "awakening" to the fact that they were people capable of controlling themselves, rather than be property to their husbands or fathers.