Both Uses of
stupor
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- She stayed alone in a kind of reverie—a sort of stupor.†
Chpt 34 *stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think
- She recalled faintly an ecstasy of pain, the heavy odor of chloroform, a stupor which had deadened sensation, and an awakening to find a little new life to which she had given being, added to the great unnumbered multitude of souls that come and go.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
a state in which there is little ability to think -- as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned