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After "The Awakening" was published in 1899, it was condemned for decades and even banned from libraries in St. Louis and other places. It began to receive attention in the 1950s and is now a classic American literary work, and has been adapted into opera singing. Some people point out that Kate Chopin, the author of "The Awakening", as a female writer, was even ahead of many male writers of her generation. She had no scruples in portraying a wife's unfaithfulness as a beautiful thing, and in this she was ahead of Lawrence. As far as creative art goes, this book was considered a masterpiece from the outset. In the 1950s, the famous scholar Brooks said that many prolific writers wrote less than this perfect novel in their lifetime.

Kate Chopin married Oscar Chopin, a cotton merchant, in 1870. The two first lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then moved to a large farm to live with the French-speaking Acadians. After her husband's death in 1882, Chopin returned to St. Louis with her six children. Friends encouraged her to write. She published her first novel, "Guilty" when she was almost forty years old. The masterpiece "The Awakening" was written in 1899. However, because the novel depicts the awakening of the heroine's "sexual consciousness" in a sympathetic tone towards adultery, and boldly reveals her view of love in pursuit of extramarital affairs, the novel caused an uproar in the American literary world as soon as it was published, shocking book critics and readers across the United States.