Kate Chopin's Awakening is about the slow awakening of Edna Pontellier, a young married woman who pursues her happiness through individualism and sexual desires in a Victorian society. As a result, Edna tries to make changes in her life, such as neglecting her duties as a “mother-woman” and moving into her own home. But he soon realizes that nothing can change for the better. Feeling completely hopeless, Edna chose to die as a final escape from the oppression of the Victorian society in which she lives. Back at Grand Isle Beach, Edna walks along the beach and watches as a bird with a broken wing crashes into the waves right before her eyes. He then takes off his clothes before entering the water. Edna swims and hugs the ocean waves as she thinks of her husband, Leonce, her two children, Robert, Mademoiselle Reisz, and finally her childhood before abandoning her life to the ocean. Watching Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Edna Pontellier's impulsive action of going naked, the image of the bird and the ocean helped her realize that she is overwhelmed by the new power of the independent life she now leads, which ultimately led her to commit suicide by drowning in the ocean. Edna Pontellier's impulsive action of becoming naked by entering the water at the end of the novel helped her realize that she cannot handle her new independent life, which led to her drowning. By taking off his clothes, he seems to say that wearing clothes is like giving in to the constraints of social conventions. So when she took them off: "But when she was there on the seashore, absolutely alone, she threw off her unpleasant and pungent clothes, and for the first time in her life she remained naked in the op... half of the paper.. .to face her fate of being unable to fully embrace her individualism in society as she abandons her life deep within her soul in the ocean. Furthermore, the last thing Edna thinks about before she drowns is the sound and smell of nature. In this perspective, she dies embracing the freedom of nature with her soul. These memories of her childhood are a sure sign that Edna is dead because most people have flashbacks to when they were happier before they died conclusion, Edna Pontellier's nakedness, the fallen bird and the ocean helped her commit suicide by helping her realize and accept that there is no room for her individualism and sexual desires in this Creole society and that her vision of an independent life may be more than he can handle. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The awakening. New York: WW Norton & Co Unsuccessful, 1994