The Awakening and Selected Short Stories【電子書籍】[ Kate Chopin ]

＜p＞The Awakening tells the story of 28-year-old Edna, a Kentuckian married to 40-year-old French Creole L?once Pontellier, a New Orleans businessman. The novel opens as Edna and her two young sons are summering along the Gulf of Mexico at Grand Isle, in beachfront cottages owned by Madame Lebrun from New Orleans, where "exclusive visitors … enabled [Madame Lebrun] to maintain the easy and comfortable existence which appeared to be her birthright." L?once has arrived for the weekend, but by Sunday morning he seems distracted by the activity around him and heads off for an afternoon of gambling at the resort hotel. Edna spends the day with Robert, Madame Lebrun's son, a 26-year-old unmarried merchant with vague plans of traveling to Mexico. Surrounded entirely by French Creoles who know each other well, Edna is mildly shocked yet titillated by the disarming candor of conversation among her summertime friends. Eventually, influenced by such company and by the island's serenity, "she [begi．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る