The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin is a prototype American novel that provoked readers and critics and focused on female issues as the turning point of feminism. The novel has advanced modern American literature by combining a realistic story with a social interpretation and psychological complexity. The protagonist, a young and dissatisfied wife and mother, explores her desires, verges an awakening and disillusionment of the world, and challenges accepted social standards towards women. The protagonist questions Victorian feminine values in the realm of doubts, explorations, intellectual freedom, emotional maturity and finally selects symbolic liberation through her death. This study focuses on Simone de Beauvoir’s perspective in The Second Sex for interpreting gender inequality in a male-dominated society to analyze gender oppressions, motherhood, marriage, and the reasons behind the protagonists’ suicide. While society finds women’s occupation chiefly restricted to household duties as mothers and wives, the protagonist fails to liberate herself from patriarchal society’s presuppositions to obtain her rights, and she opts for committing suicide as a means of salvation.