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    Edna had been taking swimming lessons all summer but struggled to learn. During her lesson with Robert that night, something changed and she was suddenly able to swim on her own. Feeling a new sense of power and control over her body, Edna grew overconfident in her abilities and wanted to swim further than any woman had gone before. Elated by her unexpected achievement, Edna swam alone rather than joining the others, intoxicated by her newfound freedom and ability to lose herself in the vast expanse of water.

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    Edna had been taking swimming lessons all summer but struggled to learn. During her lesson with Robert that night, something changed and she was suddenly able to swim on her own. Feeling a new sense of power and control over her body, Edna grew overconfident in her abilities and wanted to swim further than any woman had gone before. Elated by her unexpected achievement, Edna swam alone rather than joining the others, intoxicated by her newfound freedom and ability to lose herself in the vast expanse of water.

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    Edna had been taking swimming lessons all summer but struggled to learn. During her lesson with Robert that night, something changed and she was suddenly able to swim on her own. Feeling a new sense of power and control over her body, Edna grew overconfident in her abilities and wanted to swim further than any woman had gone before. Elated by her unexpected achievement, Edna swam alone rather than joining the others, intoxicated by her newfound freedom and ability to lose herself in the vast expanse of water.

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    Second Work: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

    Edna had attempted all summer to learn to swim. She had received instructions from both men
    and women; in some instances from the children. Robert had pursued a system of lessons almost
    daily; and he was nearly at the point of discouragement in realizing the futility of his efforts. A
    certain ungovernable dread hung about her when in the water, unless there was a hand near by
    that might reach out and reassure her.
    But that night she was like the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child, who of a sudden
    realizes its powers, and walks for the first time alone, boldly and with over-confidence. She
    could have shouted for joy. She did shout for joy, as with a sweeping stroke or two she lifted her
    body to the surface of the water.
    A feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given to her
    to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating
    her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
    Her unlooked-for achievement was the subject of wonder, applause, and admiration. Each one
    congratulated himself that his special teachings had accomplished this desired end.
    “How easy it is!” she thought. “It is nothing,” she said aloud; “why did I not discover before that
    it was nothing. Think of the time I have lost splashing about like a baby!” She would not join the
    groups in their sports and bouts, but intoxicated with her newly conquered power, she swam
    alone.
    She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast
    expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As
    she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
    ***(73-74 chapter X)

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