In the painting of “A Drowned Woman,” Parov first depicts the setting as mysterious and adds on to this effect with the fog and mist that ends up covering up the buildings behind the woman and man in the front of the scene. Although the scene is used to show the lonely and mysterious death of the women lying on the ground, the fog and mist overall adds to the importance of the woman’s clothing and that she is dressed in all black. This black and mysterious imagery to describe the woman immediately creates a similar character to the lady in black in the Awakening. Within the Awakening, Chopin similarly describes the lady in black to be dressed in black clothes with a mysterious aura around her. With this mysterious character, the lady in black