The Awakening Project: Essay Question
Robert Leburn, one of the main characters and Ednas love interest in the Kate Chopins story The Awakening. Robert is a young man who spends his summer vacation in Grand Isle with his grandmother. A result of Robert being young, he normally talks a good deal about himself when he is around Edna, and always is interested in what she has to say. Dramatic and passionate, he has a history of becoming the devoted attendant to a different woman each summer at Grand Isle. Robert offers his affections in an over-exaggerated manner; as a result he is never taken seriously. He is torn between his love for her and societys view that women are the possessions of their husbands.
Alce Arobin, does attend to different married woman, but instead of a dramatic and passionate way, Arobin is known to be seductive, charming, and forthright; the town ladies man. In the story Arobins name when Robert was told to leave Edna alone by Adele. Arobin attends to Edna, he becomes Ednas lover, and although Robert is the man whom Edna truly loves, Arobin satisfies Ednas physical urges while Robert is in Mexico. Throughout their passionate affair, Edna retains authority and never allows Alce to own or control her.
The major contrast between Robert and Arobin is love and lust. Robert being there for Edna, the one she could always talk to, Robert is very passionate and wants to be taken seriously by Edna. Arobin, known for his playboy reputation, he only satisfies Ednas physical urges with physical pleasures that Chopin leaves to our imagination. Arobin being a seducer, only lusts Edna, while Robert has a passionate and deep love for Edna.
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