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Success is coveted by every one but failure too is necessary. This paper will discuss how the failure of Edna, the heroine of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, not only in life but also in losing life is a capstone to liberate the idea of human existence of women with the abilities to think, to be aware, to deliberate and reflect like their male counterpart. Women served men since men since ages and automatically assumed servile or commodity status. Edna rejects the idea of becoming servile to the dictates of a man in exchange of luxury and leisure. Chopin is vehement about idea of respect and regard. She favours matrimonial bliss and discipline in family with one person chairing the events but hierarchy of positions in family should be followed with due reverence and renovation. Mother who is in important role of upbringing children should be entrusted with a set of responsibility and never be silenced into submission. Throughout the novel, Edna is robbed of her expression as authority and coercion of conventional men -- father and husband in her life never allows her to register her opinion, she gains confidence in company of her friend, Robert and sensuous admiration by Alcee Arobin, but both deserted her making her stranded in conventional framework helpless to support herself or survive the savage sarcasm of society.