kate chopin
Kate Chopin woke people up to the feelings and minds of women writers in the nineteenth century by crossing forbidden borders of the Victorian Era. Author and feminist Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri. The American writer wrote the short story “The Story of an Hour” in 1894 (Toth 5). Chopin lived during the Victorian Era and was a first hand witness to the suppression women faced in the late nineteenth century. Unlike most women at that time, Chopin was far from a conformist (Petry 8). She showed increasing concern for women and she responded with scandalous writings dealing explicitly with love, sex, and marriage (Thomas 19). “The Story of an Hour” revolves around what goes through a person’s head when informed that a close family member has died, in this case the husband. Upon hearing of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard was faced with conflicting emotions that she does not quite understand. In this famous short story, Kate’s refusal to be silenced is all too evident. Her well- thought out stories reflect her own life as well as her interest in female independence, male dominance, and issues of selfhood, during a time period in which it was unexpected and not always embraced with open arm
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Approximate Word count = 2899
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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