We are first introduced to Léonce Pontellier in the opening scene of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, as he lounges outside the resort cottages that pepper Grand Isle, Louisiana. Léonce reads a day-old newspaper because “the Sunday papers had not yet reached the Grand Isle” (3). Léonce’s day-old paper hints that Grand Isle, along with its preserved slave quarters, now serving as resort cottages for the vacationing Creole elite, is just slightly behind the rapidly progressing New South. This racially varied and multilingual New Orleans society is represented by a disruptive parrot preventing Léonce from reading his paper or enjoying his cigar in peace:

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为凯特·肖邦的《觉醒》中的美墨边境地理其他和战后国家建筑着色

在凯特·肖邦的《觉醒》的开场场景中，我们首先向我们介绍了莱昂斯·庞特利耶，当时他正在路易斯安那州格兰德岛的度假小屋外休息。莱昂斯读了一份旧报纸，因为“周日报纸还没有到达格兰德岛”（3）。莱昂斯发表了一天的论文暗示，格兰德岛及其保存完好的奴隶区现在是度假的克里奥尔精英的度假小屋，仅略落后于快速发展的新南方。这个种族多样、多语言的新奥尔良社会以一只破坏性的鹦鹉为代表，它阻止莱昂斯阅读他的论文或平静地享受他的雪茄：