Which excerpt from the awakening best illustrates the idea that edna is losing control of her life? all these letters were pleasing to her. she answered the children in a cheerful frame of mind, promising them bonbons, and congratulating them upon their happy find of the little pigs. she answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference. each morning she awoke with hope, and each night she was a prey to despondency. she was tempted to seek him out. but far from yielding to the impulse, she avoided any occasion which might throw her in his way. he had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.

I believe that the excerpt from The Awakening which best represents the idea that Edna is losing control of her life among the choices is this one:

"She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference."

We can see that the excerpt states that Edna was abandoning herself to Fate. This further means that she has surrendered her own life to Fate already. She does not control anything that happens to her anymore.

It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality.

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because of all the immigration, america became one big melting pot. the diversity of cultures from all over the world made america somewhat divided as well. people that immigrated stayed with their kind, and their traditions, while native born americans stayed with their kind and their traditions. normally, people born in american scorned the immigrants as well. the new religions also divided america. in summary, it took away from the american culture and identified america as the "melting pot."