Naturalistic Tendency Reflected in the symbol -sea in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

摘要

In The Awakening,naturalistic tendency can be gleaned from its efficient employment of natural elements as symbols."Symbols are objects,characters,figures,or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts."They will be successful if they enable an author to convey meaning without forcing it.In The Awakening,the indifferent sea is the powerful symbol which develop the plot and is the implication of Edna's death in the end.