Legacy
Chopin did not write another novel after The Awakening and had understandable difficulty in trying to publish stories after its publication; but today it is regarded as a classic of feminist fiction.
The Awakening was dramatized in a film known as Grand Isle in 1991 starring Kelly McGillis as Edna, Jon DeVries as Leonce and Adrian Pasdar as Robert.
In the 2010 season 1 episode 9("Wish Someone Would Care") of the HBO series Treme, Tulane professor Creighton Bernette (John Goodman) assigns the novel to his class, and briefly discusses the novel with his students before later committing suicide by drowning himself.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)