The Role of the Doctor in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening :: Chopin Awakening

The Role of the Doctor in Kate Chopins The AwakeningAccording to Benjamin, or at least according to my Benjamin, as translated then taken from secondary sources that probably used him to their own ends, the invigorated is constructed along a trajectory he calls homogenous, empty time referring to the contiguous relation of functions and their activities to each other as a delegacy of connecting their gift in the narrative. There are quite a some examples of this in Kate Chopins Awakening, but the best is found on page 87 of Chapter XXII as the sophisticate is introduced into the school text. And in one sentence, describing the doctor, Chopin outlines a way of reading her novel.While in his garden reading, Doctor Mandelet is interrupted by Mr. Pontellier, who promptly reports his wifes troubled melodic theme, indicating that Mr. Pontellier himself has a troubled mind through lines like it isnt easy to explain or Shes making it devilishly uncomfortable for me(88). These disclo sures dish up to add a few more stenciled lines, deepening Mr. Pontellier, who is, through the course of the novel, made most observable by his absences. His character is marred by a dependency on social conventions and aristocratic pride that he cannot push the logic of the facts toward a conclusion that would require a rethinking of his way of life. On page 87, when the doctor is first introduced he comes out of homogenous, empty time to enter the narrative. That is to say, his memoir and life are written into the novel as it collides with the drama of Edna Pontelliers suicide. Thus the doctor supports the teleological structure of the novel that each character was there for a purpose in carrying out the books eschatologythe end of the narrative.The doctor, the proofreader of the body, and as we find out the reader of the unconscious, enters the text reading. Before we find him reading, we are given a few expound about his life He bore a reputation for experience rather than skillleaving the active practice of medicine to his assistants and younger contemporariesand was much sought for in matters of consultation(87). As a character that facilitates a disclosure, the doctorthe reader comes to know what we already know, as if the character in the book sought the readers help but the reader could not say. And it is very generous of Chopin to put her reader in such high regard.