A review by mrspenningalovesbooks
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Kate Chopin
5.0
Kate Chopin & Mary Shelley are such goddess of the written word! I love this book, and reading it again, appreciated Chopin’s insight into the world of the late 1800’s. An awakening truly becomes a prison when there is no place to spread one’s wings.
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusion all one’s life.”
“But I don’t want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices, of others— but no matter— still, I shouldn’t want to trample upon the little lives.”
“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusion all one’s life.”
“But I don’t want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices, of others— but no matter— still, I shouldn’t want to trample upon the little lives.”
“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”