Broken Wings in The AwakeningBetween the caged parrot with a huge cage “in front of the door” which repeated “Get away! Leave! Damnation!" and Mr. Pontellier's reprimand to his wife that she was "burned beyond recognition", and the description of him regarding his wife as "valuable personal property that has suffered damage". the antenna is up. There is no welcome sign at the very beginning and we are alerted to the dysfunction of a marriage within a page or two. It's a sad start. Robert Lebrun's introduction alongside. of Edna sets up the triangle. We are told that “Robert talked a lot about himself. He was very young and didn't know much about her for the same reason. was interested in what the other said From the beginning, Robert has "plans", although he and Edna talk, she does not When Mr. Pontellier returns from Klein's hotel and wakes Edna. , with criticism of his childcare, after a night out with the boys We begin to see him as thoughtless and as eligible as Edna for the same criticism. She goes into the next room and cries. This indifference on the part of her husband triggers: “An indescribable oppression, which seemed to arise in an unknown part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.” At that point, the antenna went up and the story started to pick up speed. We are told that Mrs. Pontellier was not a “mother woman.” The female mothers of the story are easy to know: “they (flapped) their outstretched, protective wings when danger, real or imagined, threatened their precious brood.” They developed wings as “ministering angels.” I noticed, with the caged birds at the beginning of the story, how many images of birds there are throughout. It was Miss Reisz who said to Edna: “The bird that wants to rise above the level of traditions and prejudices must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weak, bruised, exhausted, return to earth flapping their wings. »Edna calls her new home “the dovecote”. He liked it. “She immediately took on the intimate character of a house, while she herself invested it with a charm that it reflected like a warm glow..