【正文】 of acceptance, Chopin, deeply discouraged by the criticism, turned to short story writing. In 1900, she wrote The Gentleman from New Orleans, and that same year she was listed in the first edition of Marquis Who39。s novel bears the hallmarks of Maupassant39。s overarching nieenth century realism is an incisive and often humorous skewering of upper class pretension, reminiscent of direct contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Gee Bernard Shaw.Also evident in The Awakening is the future of the Southern novel as a distinct genre, not only in setting and subject matter but in narrative style. Chopin39。s emotional crises and her eventual tragic fall look ahead to the plex female characters of Tennessee Williams39。s style also prefigure the intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing. Chopin39。 it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O39。s novel bears the hallmarks of Maupassant39。s overarching nieenth century realism is an incisive and often humorous skewering of upper class pretension, reminiscent of direct contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Gee Bernard Shaw.Also evident in The Awakening is the future of the Southern novel as a distinct genre, not only in setting and subject matter but in narrative style. Chopin39。s emotional crises and her eventual tragic fall look ahead to the plex female characters of Tennessee Williams39。s style also prefigure the intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing. Chopin39。minisme ou la Mort (1974). Ecofeminism connects the exploitation and domination of women with that of the environment, and argues that there is a connection between women and nature. Ecofeminists believe that this connection is illustrated through the traditionally 39。s lives, work and knowledge with the creation of wealth.Feminist and social ecologist Ja Biehl has criticized Ecofeminism for focusing too much on a mystical connection between women and nature and not enough on the actual conditions of women. Rosemary Radford Ruether joins Ja Biehl in critiquing this focus on mysticism over work that focuses on helping women, but argues that spirituality and activism can be bined effectively in Ecofeminism.9 The Natural Images in the awakening The SeaIn many literary works, women are always linked closely with water, and there are filled with rich and profound connotation. we can understand this in different views: “According to the characteristics of water, we can say it: it is clean and cool, sweet and static, and it melts thing.....”.They respectively describe women39。 But after the following people and experience appearing in her life, she finds herself in the middle of a world. Which is full of romantic color and strangeness, as if the sea is trying to wake her by music, art and the desire for freedom. She bees aware her existence, especially the existence as a person. She tries to discard the false face and returns the true of herself, and never observes the conventional standards。 Edna feels so excited and absorbed without any ties when swimming freely in the sea , which fives her a wonderful chance to reunderstand herself and purify her heart. Kate Chopin refers to the “the light of sea” in the novel, and the beam of light light up the road ahead for Edna. Then Edna gradually awakes from deep sleep and recognizes she is a independent person having her own consciousness. Since then, the seeds with selfexploration and faith of desiring freedom germinates in her heart, when the seeds grows into towering trees, Edna will wake up absolutely both in body and soul. The sea is not only the power source, but also the cradle of spiritual rebirth for Edna’s pursuit for selfconsciousness. At the end of the story, brokenhearted Edna returns to the island and es to the sea。 Well ,the women and nature representing the perceptual are always being ruled keep in the marginal position. there is a description appears in the novel: Outside the door, a parrot in the cage repeated again and again in French..... (P1). Since the birdcage created by the human civilization in the patriarchal system, humans begin wantonly catch birds, which have the bad influence on the ecological balance. Though the birds in the cage need not be battered by the wind and the rain, have enough food and sing everyday, they lose the freedom to fly in the sky the rights to embrace the nature. The bird is the symbols of the women in the malecentered society.Before awakening, Edna is just like th。 so at the last moment, she seems to back childhoods. This is why Edna steps into the sea without any hesitation.11Her selection is not blind impulsion but profound choice。 The waves’ voice awakes her senses and her pure ,romantic instinct. Edna can39。 Her laud shouts of seeking freedom cannot be heard, but the abysmal sea, like a goddess of wisdom to listen to her heart。 values of reciprocity, nurturing and cooperation, which are present both among women and in nature. Additionally, Ecofeminists draw connections between menstruation and moon cycles, childbirth and creation etc. Women and nature are also united through their shared history of oppression by a patriarchal Western society.Vandana Shiva claims that women have a special connection to the environment through their daily