摘要：The Awakening is about the heroine Edna Pontellier awakes and tries to reset her relation with the world in New Orleans,a place the family chose to spend the summer, where there also are influences working their way to awake Edna. Among them, theeffects from Madame Ratignolle and Madame Reisz are of great importance in the process of Edna’s awakening and to her final sui-cide. This dissertation will see how Edna is affected by and distinguished from them, and get the conclusion that Edna fails being alife mediator by contrasting with the two women.

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