To understand Kate Chopin's writing style, you must first understand her life. She was born Katherine O'Flaherty in 1850 to an Irish and French family In St. Louis, Missouri. Her grandmother and great-grandmother lived with them and were great influences in her life and later in her writing. Chopin learned French and female endurance from living in a house full of women. Her great-grandmother also told her stories about her own grandmother, who ran a ferry service and was very promi

In conclusion, Chopin did not write in a first-person point of view. Her characters' feelings were portrayed by their interactions, not through her perspective. Chopin wrote her stories based on her beliefs and her upbringings, she did not write about the unknown because that wasn't her style. Chopin was also a brave woman of her time; she had to be to write about adultery and women's sexuality, things that were taboo for a woman to talk about in the era she lived in. After all the things she went through to write about the topics she wanted to write about, she is now widely accepted by society. Through her death she is indeed "Free! Body and soul free!"

scuous. She told her stories about women who were daring and women that didn't marry.

As a young girl, Chopin would go to mass every morning. She attended school the Sacred Heart Academy. The academy was surrounded by tall lilac bushes that were described in "Lilacs" as a sweet fragrance that "scented the air after late spring rains." Chopin was told to trust God and his servants, she was also told "a girl's guardian angel occupied a place next to her in her chair in class and on her pillow at night" (Smith-Riser). Chopin once said after a friend asked her if she would "rather be a dog." She later explained that the dog's life was real and the nun's life was a "phantasmagorial" (Smith-Riser).

Perhaps they are right, there is no proof that she was fighting for women's rights. People just simply jumped to that conclusion based on her writings.

Through this story you can plainly see that Chopin may have supported slavery, but not for racial reasons. Why else would she make Armand suffer for the rest of his life knowing that he is what he nearly hates? Chopin was very interested in "capturing how people spoke, any people" (A Re-Awakening).

Kate was neither a feminist nor a suffragist, she said so. She was nonetheless a woman who took women extremely seriously. She never doubted women's ability to be strong...There's no indication that...she regretted her marriage, or regretted being a mother. (A Re-Awakening)

The Awakening's main character is Edna Pontillier, a woman aware of her sexual cravings and open about them as well. Many see Chopin's novel as "an explanation of the solitary soul, still enchanted by the primal, charged, and intimate encounter of naked sensation with the astonishing world" (Domestic Goddesses). Although I have never read The Awakening, I'm sure that this theory is t

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