Identity
‘Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before
leaving for the beach.’ - Narrator Chapter 1 Poem comparison; ‘Timer’ ‘One Flesh’
“You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a
valuable piece of property which has suffered damage. - Leonce Chapter 1 Poem that
contrasts with this quote is ‘Long Finish’
‘Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself.’ - Narrator Chapter 7
Poem comparison; ‘One Flesh’
‘that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions’ - Narrator
Chapter 7 Poem comparison; ‘One Flesh, Talking in Bed, Punishment’ Duality of
this quote resembles ‘Long Finish’
‘Passionately enamored of a dignified cavalry officer’ - Chapter 7 Poem Comparison;
‘The Love Poem’, ‘One Flesh’
‘She herself was nothing, nothing, nothing to the engaged young man’ - Chapter 7
Poem Comparison; ‘The Love Poem, One Flesh’
‘Closing the portals forever behind her upon the realm of romance and dreams’ Chapter
7 Poem Comparison ‘The Love Poem, One Flesh’
‘She is not one of us; she is not like us’ - Adele Ratignolle Chapter 8
‘she was like the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child,.. realizes its powers, and
walks for the first time alone, boldly - Narrator Chapter 10 Poem Comparison ‘I, being
born a woman and distressed’ contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My
Love, Returning to His Wife’
‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before’ - Narrator Chapter 10
Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ contrast to the
awakening comparison ‘For My Love, Returning to His Wife’
‘she was seeing with different eyes….new conditions in herself that colored and
changed her environment’ - narrator Chapter 14 Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a
, woman and distressed’ contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My Love,
Returning to His Wife’
‘I would give up the unessential, I would give up my money, I would give my life for my
children; but I wouldn't give myself’ - Edna Chapter 16 Poem Comparison;
‘Punishment’, ‘Vergissmeinnicht’
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume
like a garment with which to appear before the world.” - Narrator Chapter 19 Poem
Comparison ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ contrast to the awakening
comparison ‘For My Love, Returning to His Wife’
"One of these days . . . I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think--try to
determine what character of woman I am" - Edna Chapter 27 Poem Comparison ‘I,
being born a woman and distressed’ contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For
My Love, Returning to His Wife’
‘By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the
sex’ - Edna Chapter 27 Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’
contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My Love, Returning to His Wife’
‘No longer was she content to "feed upon opinion" when her own soul had invited her’
Narrator Chapter 32 Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’
contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My Love, Returning to His Wife’
‘I have got into a habit of expressing myself. It doesn’t matter to me, and you may think
me unwomanly if you like’ - Edna Chapter 36 Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a
woman and distressed’ contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My Love,
Returning to His Wife’
‘it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions’ -
Edna Chapter 38 Poem Comparison ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’,
‘Punishment’ contrast to the awakening comparison ‘For My Love, Returning to
His Wife’
