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Kate Chopin was talented at showing various sides of marriages and local people and their lives, making her writing very broad and sweeping in topic, even as she had many common themes in her work. [29] [30] Martha Cutter argues that Kate Chopin demonstrates feminine resistance to patriarchal society through her short stories. [31]
"Fedora" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1895. The story was published under the title "The Falling in Love of Fedora" in The Criterion, a local St. Louis magazine, on February 20, 1897. The story centers on Fedora, a woman who becomes infatuated with Young Malthers and his sister, Miss Malthers.
Later, interest in her work grew, and in 1970 the play was published as part of Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories by the Library of America. [5] The play has been studied as an example of early American literature; for example, it is included in Yvonne Collioud Sisko's book Looking at Literature: 12 Short Stories, a Play, and a Novel.
While most readers infer Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is about the awakening of feminine awareness and the struggle for freedom in a man's world, Li Chongyue and Wang Lihua offer a new analysis. They conclude that Mrs. Mallard is an ungrateful and unfaithful wife. Chopin provides little background on both Mr. and Mrs. Mallard.
An Egyptian Cigarette" [1] is a short story written by Kate Chopin, first published in April 1900 in Vogue 15. It is about an experience induced by a powerful cigarette, leading the narrator to have a disturbing dream in which her lover abandons her.
"On First Looking (and Looking Once Again) into Chopin's Fiction". In Bernard Koloski. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 112–130. ISBN 978-0807134955. Gallardo, Pere. "Two Sides of Feminine Solitude: 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' and 'Regret' by Kate ...
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
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