Kate Chopin "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

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Kate Chopin "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

Biography Catherine (Kate) O'Flaherty born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1850 grew up speaking both French and English She was bilingual and bicultural

Biography attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart As a girl, she was mentored by woman in her life Much of the fiction Kate wrote as an adult draws on the nurturing she received from women as she was growing up. In 1855, her father was killed in a railroad accident

Biography From 1867 to 1870 Kate kept a commonplace book Husband was Oscar Chopin Between 1871 and 1879 she gave birth to five sons and a daughter 1882 Oscar died of malaria-Kate became a widow at age thirty-two, with the responsibility of raising six children. She never remarried.

Novels and Short Stories The Awakening Story of an Hour The Storm Desiree's Baby A Pair of Silk Stockings Fedora A Respectable Woman At Fault

Story of An Hour Louise Mallard's sister, Josephine, tells her about a railroad disaster and Brently, was on the list of those killed. Louise begins sobbing when Josephine tells her of Brently’s death and goes upstairs to be alone in her room. Later, she goes downstairs to find out Brently is still alive. She then dies of a heart failure.

Style Very descriptive with her writing Realistic and contemporary More modern than anyone in her time

Themes women's search for selfhood, for self- discovery or identity. women's revolt against conformity, often against gender conformity or against social norms, limiting women's possibilities in life.

Issues Wrote about women and their life struggles Issue focused on women's rights her portrayal of women's desires of independence and control of their own sexuality Wrote about feelings. Kate Chopin is one of the earliest examples of modernism in the US; supposedly the first feminist wrier of her time

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