In this essay my purpose is to touch upon the narrative structure and narrative technique in the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin The novel begins with the major character Edna Pontellier spending the summer vacation at Grand Isle a resort in New Orleans with her two sons and her husband Léonce Because her husband is so busy working she spends most of the time with her friend Adèle Ratignolle who was a creole role mother Here she meets Robert Lebrun a young man who went to Grand Isle to spend the summer with his mother and he was that type of man that courted only married women and because of the friendship with Adèle the awakening process starts At the resort she learns how to swim she develops the artistic sense of painting and she spends time with Robert so they fall in love with each other Back to New Orleans she isolates herself so her husband gets in touch with doctor Mandelet who tells him to give her some space She decides to move out and she starts an affair with Alcée Arobin while her husband is away with business but in the end it doesn't work out She talks with Mademoiselle Reisz who keeps in touch with Robert he was in Mexico and Edna asks her if she has letters for her from Robert and finally Mademoiselle Reisz shows some letters addressed to her When he returns they claim the love between them
