*RING* Do I want to wake up?
It's 5:00. I can sleep more.
*RING* Wha- It's only been 30 seconds! Chill down, alarm clock.
It's 5:10. A lot of time left.
*RING* Ugh... Five minutes more...
5:20. Should start waking up.
*RING* What time is it?
5:30. I can probably rush everything up later... I need more sleep.
...
Yawn... What time is it?
7:08. Oh what do you know. Negative three minutes to get to class. No biggie. Nothing wrong.
DAMN IT.
One tends to realize some things a bit too late. The fact that you need to wake up, for one, is something that I, and hopefully many others, struggle with every morning.
Got a bit off topic.
Now, why haven't the women in The Awakening realized that something was wrong? I mean, other than Edna, someone must have seen this! There are so many women in the same situation, so isn't it basically impossible for this oppresion to go on for so long?
Well, there's your problem. All the women were in the same situation.
If everyone else is sleeping and you wake up in the middle of the night and you're sleepy as shi[giraffe], you're not going to wake up. Why wake up when everyone else is sleeping? Just do what others do, and you'll be fine. If something goes wrong, everyone goes wrong, but there's no way in hell I'm the only one getting in trouble, nu-uh.
This is why there is no one-man revolutions. You need people with a common cause. Who would want to be the first woman to go against the common norm and risk being remembered as 'that-one-woman-that-went-batshi[giraffe]-crazy-and-had-to-be-taken-to-that-white-house-at-the-top-of-the-hill'?
Why would one want to swim farther out into the sea, where no one had ever been to? Who knows what you'll find there. It could be treasure, yes, but it could be death. (or worse, a shark... followed by death.)
Now, would you say that this 'awakening' was a bit too late?
After all, all this sexism and stuff is still a big topic nowadays, more than a century after this book was written. Personally, that's something to think about.
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