Self-reconciliation and awareness of what one has done, and the realization that the problem can be countered is the case of Kate Chopin's "Edna Pontlier of The Awakening". An unhappy woman, who faced so much heartache and confusion, that through all the madness she has gone through an epiphany dawns upon her and has a life changing affect. At the beginning of the novel, Edna quickly finds herself unable to tend to her responsibilities, and …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…ultimate move. She decided to drown -to escape the kind of lifestyle that she had grown to love and hate at the same time, rather than live her cramped, restricted life as a mother and wife. She could have chosen to struggle along, and lived a life of servitude to society's norms, but her personality would not allow it. Rather, she chose the way to freedom, to - in her eyes - a greater happiness.