Read the excerpt from chapter 29 of The Awakening.

Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband's bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources.

By moving only the belongings she acquired without her husband, Edna is ...

A) asserting her independence and rejecting the traditional role of a wife.

B) getting rid of items that would only clutter up the small pigeon house.

C) becoming a regular person rather than a member of the aristocracy.

D) hoping to win back Robert's favor after he has apparently abandoned her.

A) asserting her independence and rejecting the traditional role of a wife

This is one of the first novels that is centered in the role of the woman (written by a woman). The character, Edna Pontellier is what we now describe as a "feminist".

She lives in a world where the only role she is supposed to have is to be a mother and a wife. She rebels against it and she get involved in several affairs. His husband even calls a doctor as he is afraid she is mentally ill.

In a moment of the novel, her children are sent away with their grandmother and her husband goes on a trip. Edna is left alone and she moves to a little bungalow, which is useful to think about her life.