Yes...No

In Juliana Castro’s Blog The Readsponder, she submits a blog called: Understanding A Different Time. In the blog she writes about the Creole culture and Mrs. Pontelliers marriage witch I don’t feel she is accurately depicting. In her explanation of Edna’s marriage Juliana stats that the story is a cliché in which I’ll have to disagree, right off from the start we learn that we are in an island near New Orleans dating back to the late nineteenth century to experience the life of a woman that is completely out of context to her time. In the other hand it could not have been considered a cliché given the fact the novella was published on April 1899, way before women activists, cheating, and falling in love crap was generalized.

Apart from the previously stated, the blog talks about Mrs. Pontellier not having an apparent reason for her sucky marriage and the exterior view of the marriage as a perfect one. First off it is evident that Edna is suffering from some sort of depression dealing with her life as it is at the beginning of the novella. Despite not having a 100% certified answer for her depression it is precise to say that her attitude is the one to blame for her saggy marriage. The second aspects deals with the way others see Edna’s marriage, as Chopin states everyone thinks of Edna as a woman that is not really a woman or a strive for mother-woman. She is in fact quite the opposite in terms of parenthood and she is categorized as “different” by the community. Edna in my opinion or therefore Edna´s story is not a cliché and evidently she is not a typical woman.