SOURCE: Batten, Wayne. “Illusion and Archetype: The Curious Story of Edna Pontellier.” Southern Literary Journal, 18, no. 1 (fall 1985): 73-88.
In the following essay, Batten examines Chopin's ambiguity of meaning regarding the notion of illusion in The Awakening.
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