Consider Edna Pontellier’s decision to pursue love and desire beyond her marriage in The Awakening. To what extent do you think the pressures of gender role expectations excuse, or fail to excuse, her affair with another man?

 Prompt Response: The extent that I think pressures of gender roles expectations excuse, or fail to excuse, her affair with another man that it doesn't justify it because they should of been on the same page throughout and not wait until the very end.

Summary: Today in class we worked on I want a wife and seen the expectation on the other side of the other gender.

Reflection: I learned how society set certain standard for certain gender roles just because their born like this , they have to do that.

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