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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's short story "The Storm" was not published during her lifetime because of its scandalous (for that time) content. In the late-ninteenth century, women writing about adulterous and...
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Kate Chopin
Many of Kate Chopin's short stories deal with the experiences of women in a culture dominated by men. So it is with this story. A young woman, Nattie, is intent on making a match for herself with a...
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Kate Chopin
Chopin’s stories often depict women who are trapped by gender role expectations and pressured to conform to societal norms. In these instances, all three characters - Calixta (“The Storm”), Louise...
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Kate Chopin
In Kate Chopin's short story entitled "The Storm," a woman named Calixta is unfaithful to her husband, Bobinôt, during a bad storm that brings a former lover, Alcée Laballière, to her doorstep....
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Kate Chopin
There are only three characters in this story; Brantain, Harvy and Nathalie. Natahlie is being courted by the rich Mr. Brantain. They are sitting together when Mr. Harvy comes in a plants a big...
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Kate Chopin
This short story by Kate Chopin features the characters Athenaise, who has been recently married to Cazeau, her brother, called Monteclin and another man called Gouvernail. The story starts with...
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Kate Chopin
The city in which "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is set is unnamed; however it is large enough to have a department store, theatre, and a trolley car. In the 1890s this could easily be New Orleans...
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Kate Chopin
The feeling I get when I read this short story is one of mystery. The author sets the stage for this right from the very beginning when she describes the locket as some sort of good luck charm....
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Kate Chopin
The key theme in this short story is a theme that is explored in many of Chopin's works, which is the theme of marriage and woman's role within it. What leads Athenaise to reject her husband and...
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Kate Chopin
The theme of "Ripe Figs" is that human maturity is related to the seasons of the year, a process that cannot be hastened. In Kate Chopin's story, the young character Babette wants to go to Bayou...
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Kate Chopin
This is an excellent short short story by one of the best short story writers ever, in my opinion, and if we want to consider symbolism, one way to do it would be to consider the ripe figs of the...
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Kate Chopin
"Beyond the Bayou" by Kate Chopin features a black woman called Jacqueline, but who is known as "La Folle" (Crazy Woman in French) because of the way that she has drawn "an imaginary line" through...
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Kate Chopin
Please be more specific. What is your question? Your observation? Your conundrum?
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's short story, "A Respectable Woman," has several themes, to be expected from an author with such strong female protagonists. However, the story may also demonstrate the universal truth...
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Kate Chopin
The female characters in both Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" both fall to the power of the dominate male in her life. For both women, the man...
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Kate Chopin
Settings play a key role in establishing the characters of this terrific short story all about the way that a woman is able to manipulate her way into a wealthy marriage, in spite of an incident...
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Kate Chopin
The Kate Chopin story "A Night in Arcadie" opens with binary opposition representing binary system. Binary opposition (BO) is used in contemporary literary criticism by structuralist,...
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Kate Chopin
Reading this story in the context of Kate Chopin's other works can help your understanding even though the story certainly stands on its own as well. Like many of Chopin's other stories and her...
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Kate Chopin
In Chopin's short story "At the 'Cadian Ball," Bruce, the manservant of the Laballières, tells Mademoiselle Clarisse that Alceé Laballière has gone to the Cajun (Acadian) ball. He explains that...
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Kate Chopin
Like previously stated, the loss of freedom due to marriage, and the existence of the self-assertive woman despite of social limitation are, indeed, themes in the story. However, upon performing a...
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Kate Chopin
Unfortunately I had to edit your question to focus on just one question. You are not allowed to ask multiple questions. You have picked a rather intriguing story to focus on. I think "Ripe Figs" is...
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Kate Chopin
Some readers do indeed condemn Mrs. Mallard for what they consider the callous nature of her reaction to her husband’s death. Among the arguments the make are the following: Mrs. Mallard is...
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Kate Chopin
Many societies expect its individual members to follow the orders, ideologies, customs, and laws of the whole. For example, in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the villagers go along with the...
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Kate Chopin
In both "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Other Two," we meet women who arrange, manage, and control their men. They are self-possessed people who know how to get what they want. A more negative...
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was an advocate for women's liberation from Victorian restrictions. Her narrative of "The Story of an Hour" exemplifies the stultifying impact of biological determinism, social...
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Kate Chopin
I think that any potential answer to this question is going to be larger than the space here will allow. Chopin's understanding of women's identity and, basically what it means, to be a woman is...
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin is able to write complex short stories in brief lengths for several reasons. In both of the examples listed, Chopin uses a third person limited point of view and spare figurative...
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Kate Chopin
Well, I suppose this question depends very much on who you side with when you think about the characters in this short story. The protagonist is the character who is trying to achieve something and...
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Kate Chopin
One language technique that Chopin uses is imagry. This is where you use the 5 senses to describe a scene, helping it to seem more vibrant and alive. After Louise has heard the news of her...
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Kate Chopin
I think that in the two stories specified, Chopin views marriage as an institution that inhibits individual desires, specifically those of women. Calixta and Louise Mallard are both repressed, to...
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Kate Chopin
[ While Enotes educators do not compose essays, we are glad to assist with ideas as to the composition of comparison/contrast. ] Certainly, Katherine Mansfield's short story named after a Chopin...
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Kate Chopin
Themes of race and racism are central to this story. Note how Armand responds when he discovers that the child is of mixed ancestry - he assumes it is Desiree's unknown background that is...
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Kate Chopin
At the time The Awakening was published women were expected to behave in a certain way. Women were supposed to be demure, submissive, subservient to their fathers and husbands. Patriarchal society...
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Kate Chopin
I'll be happy to provide whatever help I can (feel free to "message" me). Let me say for now that there are three things that I always try to do when beginning to develop a research project on a...
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Kate Chopin
First, you might start by examining Chopin' Awakening in relation to Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Many critics consider The Awakening a version of Flaubert transposed to New Orleans. Next, you might...
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Kate Chopin
I think that one can find a couple of links between both of Chopin's short stories. The depiction of women being able to act on their autonomy or consider a life where this freedom is activated is...
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Kate Chopin
This is a very good approach to Kate Chopin. When her husband died, he left her with six children and substantial debts in a period in which women had few avenues open to earn money. Her career as...
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Kate Chopin
I think that the basic idea of Chopin's work is to express what it means to be a woman. Writing from the age of 37, Chopin is able to bring out the unique dynamics and conditions that govern being...
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Kate Chopin
Chopin was a realist, part of a literary movement in the 19th century that was dedicated to reporting the lives of common people.The attributes of realism as a literary style are debated; however...
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Kate Chopin
In "Odalie Misses Mass," the main character, Odalie, is a young white girl who goes to visit her an older black woman named Aunt Pinky. At first, Odalie says and does many things that could be...
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Kate Chopin
I am not totally familiar with the critical done with Chopin's fiction, but I do know that "The Awakening" is a perfect example of the angel/devil role women must play in traditional literature as...
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Kate Chopin
Many of Chopin's stories are highly psychological. In my opinion, this is no better seen in the short story, "The Story of an Hour." Mrs. Mallard's extreme emotional roller coaster upon hearing...
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Kate Chopin
In terms of "The Yellow Wallpaper," there is a definite presence of love/ hate relationship. The relationship between the husband and wife is one where there can be definite perceptions of love...
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Kate Chopin
Given the three choices, I would argue that Kate Chopin is being sentimental about the Southern region in this story. Now, we'll examine the reasons why. First, Chopin excelled in short fiction in...
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Kate Chopin
Muckraking is considered investigative writing meant to expose social ills or corporate and political corruption. In her short story "Odalie Misses Mass," Kate Chopin exposes some of the social...
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Kate Chopin
Lousiana is the setting for "The Storm" by Kate Chopin. (See the sources cited below.)Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was an intelligent and witty debutante who traveled to Europe and then...
