| Book Review |
An
early feminist novel published in 1899. Edna is 28YO and is married
with two kids to a wealthy business man. The story takes us to Louisiana
on the Gulf Coast for a family vacation where she meets Robert. An
innocent friendship grows and he says good bye because he loves her and
cannot have her. Edna and her family return to New Orleans and she
reexamines her life and begins to recall her freedom as a girl and soon
begins ignore house management, and child rearing, to paint, see
friends, take long walks solo. She sends her kids to the grandmothers,
and her husband leaves for NY for business. She recovers her
independence and embraces love and lovers but never forgets Robert. She
returns to the vacation spot and takes a solo swim and is overcome with
weakness as the ocean pulls her under where no one can every own her
again. |
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