The Pigeonnier in Awakening"In a small four-room house on the corner. It looks so comfortable, so welcoming and relaxing." (79) With this description Chopin introduces the reader to Edna's new residence, affectionately nicknamed the dovecote. The dovecote offers Edna the comfort and security that her old home lacked. The tranquility that the dovecote grants Edna allows her to experience a freedom she has never felt before. The first taste of this newfound freedom is the satisfaction Edna feels in being able to support herself with her own money. The fact that she no longer depends on her husband's money breaks the last link she had with him: "I know that I will like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence."(80) In her mind now, her marriage is dead and Mr. Pontellier has no control over her. Financial freedom isn't the only thing the dovecote offers Edna; it also allows him both physical and spiritual freedom. When Edna kisses Arobin in her husband's house, she feels "a reproach as she looks at her because of the external things which surround her and which he has provided for her external existence."(84) However, her first night at the dovecote that she spends with Arobin, and this time, he feels neither reproach nor regret. As for the spiritual ramifications brought by her new home, Chopin writes: "There was a feeling of descent in the social ladder, with the corresponding feeling of having grown in the spiritual..., she began to look for herself eyes... she was no longer content to feed on opinions. » (94) The dovecote offers Edna a way to escape the society she hates. She now has the freedom to make decisions in her life; and she decides that she is going to live her life according to her own rules, not the rules that society has imposed on her. When she is at home, she is free from the pressures of being the “mother wife” that society forces her to be. The dovecote nourishes this newfound freedom, allowing it to grow and gain strength. Without the environment that the dovecote provided, it is doubtful that Edna would ever have “awakened” from the state of stupefaction in which society forced her to live...