Books like The Awakening and Selected Stories

5/5stars2019 update:I actually meant to update my rating for "The Awakening" AGES ago because I ended up using the novella as my main piece of literature in my gigantic English Major Writing Seminar essay and I really found myself enjoying it the more I worked with it and its become my go-to novel when discussing American literature.that being said, this semester i had to read a handful of the selected short stories by Chopin and I enjoyed this just as much as her novella! Chopin has just a wonderful, unapologetic way of writing that makes her and her stories incredibly relevant even 120 years after most of them were published. She's an OG feminist and I love her works.2018:4/5starsI actually really enjoyed this? This book is seriously revolutionary considering it was written in the 1800s and still explored women's feelings and sexuality more than 90% of books nowadays lol (I literally have a note being like "WOW this book talks about a woman pooping while books nowadays can't even mention any character going to the bathroom") but yeah wow Edna is an incredible character and incredibly real and her feelings and emotions and thoughts are very powerful. The ending of this book I'm now questioning if it was the first to do this cause I've seen it done multiple times in contemporary books.But yeah I really ended up enjoying this!