/lit/ - Literature

sorry to bump this old thread, I just had to get this off my chest.
The Awakening was about a selfish rich broad who suddenly realized she never wanted to have kids or be married to the guy she married in the first place. So she kills herself

Its not a story of a woman driven to the edge by her oppressive husband and a society that thinks she should take his abuse and like it. The husband is barely even shown in the story, he just seems like your average oblivious guy of the era.
Its just a woman who decides that if she can't have every pissant thing she wants she's gonna pitch the tantrum to end all tantrums and kill herself.

Moral of the story: live a life of luxury without any wants, then decide its not enough? kill yourself.
good advice.

I have to make an argument about the portrayal of feminine agency in this novel for an essay

What the fuck does that mean

Also a blatant plagiarization of Madame Bovary.