Kate Chopin's ViewKate Chopin, the author of The Awakening, viewed the isle as a "wholesome tropical paradise," one that "no one needed to lock to the doors" or worry about "swarming mosquitoes infecting its residents" (Pimley). To her the isle was a beautiful, serene venue where she felt her inner awareness awaken.
Relevance to The AwakeningGrand Isle relates to the novel because it was written years ago in time periods like these. People around the world had to grow up going through the same diseases and sicknesses. The people described in Chopin's novel finally realized some of the better things that they could have, just like the Americans did in the Gilded Age and when resorts were discovered.
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