[Female Awakening + Marriage Dilemma + Self-Exploration + Classic Literature]
Her name is Edna Pontellier, and she is an "unqualified" wife and mother in the eyes of her husband.
In the summer of twenty-eight years old, in the sea breeze of Grand Island, she felt the tremor of her soul for the first time - not from the care of her husband Lynes, but from the fiery gaze of the young man Robert. That night, she swam to the deep sea alone under the moonlight, and experienced the power of "herself" for the first time.
After returning to New Orleans, she began to break away from all restraints: she no longer observed the Tuesday etiquette for visiting guests, refused to attend her sister's wedding, and moved from the mansion to the "pigeon house" on the corner of the street. When Robert came back from Mexico and confessed his love to her, she thought she had found true love, but she waited for the note he left: "I love you - goodbye."
"Sacrificing myself for my children? I will never give up on myself."
On that morning when she swam naked to the sea, Edna finally understood: true awakening is to say goodbye to everything - including love, family and even life itself.
