Towards the end of the nineteenth century one of the political issues in America was the issue of women’s rights. Wheeler states that, “Many feminist movements such as the suffrage movement and association called National American Woman Suffrage Association for women’s rights led by Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were taking place throughout the turn of the nineteenth century.” Women of this time period wanted the right to vote and the right to just have individuality. These women did not want to be known as the mother of this man’s children or the wife of this man. Kate Chopin, a feminist writer of the nineteenth century expresses her views on feminism in her novel The Awakening. In The Awakening Edna Pontel
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