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Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being… — Kate Chopin

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Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

Kate Chopin
The Awakening · 1899
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Man and the universeSociety and the individual
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Novel
Time
1899
Person
Kate Chopin
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Current citation
Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.
Original citation
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

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