Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

5 reviews

north_elliot's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is okay for the most part, but in some places, the writing quality goes down. Certain parts are slightly confusing. Sometimes, the narrator goes out of character, but it's not too bad. Edna has some mental illness.

I'm not sure what Robert sees in her.

Also, there is a lack of details, especially at the abrupt end.

Edna's suicide is really pathetic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

melancholymegs's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Suicide, Racial slurs, Infidelity, and Racism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Minor: Classism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

paigeinabook's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Suicide, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Death of parent

maggiegirouard's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Overall I liked the book, it was very interesting from a feminist literary perspective. I personally did not like the main character edna, at least after finishing the book and sitting on it for a day. I thought she was rash, oblivious, and ignorant. She thought she was freeing herself at the end, but

her death was not freeing, she could have gone on living a life she wanted to and achieving things, she could have taught her children and other people what she learned, and most of all, she is perpetuating the cycle she grew up in, without a mother, by leaving her children motherless.

I admire Adele and I think edna took much of her advice the wrong way. I think Adele was a feminist in her own way, and that Edna did not and could not see that. To me Edna is not this enlightened feminist who finds herself, she is a troubled woman who does not know where she is in her life and does not know where she would like to go. She seems to appreciate the things she has and the things she has learned about herself, but she lets it all go at the end very suddenly. I think I would need to read the novel again to understand Edna and her actions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexism and Racism

Minor: Death of parent

valyn_grebe's review against another edition

challenging dark lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Suicide