Check off all of the trends that were happening at the end of the 1800s in America? The wild west was being "tamed" and the frontier was coming to a close

the digital age was beginning

The Second Industrial Revolution was changing the way of life in the cities

new inventions like the light bulb were improving the quality of life

World Wars raged across Europe

character development is the internal change an individual, a fictional one in this case, undergoes through the course of a story as a result of the conflict or conflicts that person encounters. options 1,2 and 5 don't offer much of this since they mostly just describe the momentary actions and reactions of edna pontellier. in kate chopin's the awakening we first meet edna as someone in a sort of semi-conscious state and completely unaware of her own feelings and ambitions. as the story progresses she becomes more self aware of these ambitions and gaining also the confidence to act on them on quotes 3 and (mostly on) 4 we begin to see these changes on her.