1. The Awakening Discussion
How has Alcee and Edna’s relationship evolved?
What does Edna reveal to Mademoiselle Reisz? What is her reaction? What are Edna’s reasons?
Quote on PG 79: Edna determining her character. What does she mean here?
Quote PG 79: Mademoiselle’s bird quote. What is she implying here?
Chapter XXVIII: What is Edna’s only regret?
What happens between Edna and Alcee? Why?

2. “But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords wailed. There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable.”

3. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” Charlie Brown
List examples of unrequited love in everything from poems and novels, to television and movies, and real life.
Why is this such an interesting, and timeless topic?

4. Make a Prediction
What do you think is going to happen at the end of the novel?
Support you prediction with at least 3 quotes, and tell me why.