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of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...
These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...
Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...
In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...
This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...
lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...
As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...
his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...
She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...
A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...
Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author portrays the lacking maternal instincts of protagonist Edna Pontelli...
In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...
Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...
incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...