The Awakening #2

i just want to talk briefly about what i was thinking about in class today in terms of the symbolism of Adele always wearing white or being associated to something white. As we know, Adele is just an average woman in the Creole society. She cares for her children imaginably, dresses and acts just as a Creole woman should, and lives out the expectations and mannerisms that are acceptable in society. Outwardly, she is a "good" woman. she does exactly what she needs to do. She is surely innocent and pure. this is why she wears white all the time, one would think. but i think that there is more underneath that, particularly for the reason that Chopin wrote this novel from an edgy somewhat (for lack of better word) bitter point of view. i think that Adele surely is ignorant and pure - in terms of that society. However, i think that whiteness is kind of an opposite form of symbolism, or there is some form of irony in it, because it is pure in that society - but is that society necessarily pure? are the expectations and traditions of that society necessarily right or "the way things should be." that's why i think the white symbolism is not necessarily a direct association to innocence. Adele is certainly living the way she should be, living as good woman, by the way that she knows it, but she is ignorant. ignorant to what more is out there. this may be true, yet i dontknow if she necessarily cares anyway, for from an outward point of view she seems to be a content and happy woman. this is the way she was raised.