YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :At Fault by Kate Chopin
Essays 181 - 210
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...
In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...
In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...
In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...
Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...
In 7 pages this paper discusses how the author expressed real life feelings in this short story. Seventeen sources are cited in t...
the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...
the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...
while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...
In five pages this paper examines women and racism as depicted in these two literary works. There are no other sources listed....
In 6 pages this paper proposes an alternative ending to this feminist novel in which Edna Pontellier does not commit suicide and i...
courted by Frederick Forsyth Winterbourne. Winterbourne is also an American. Daisy has a friendship with an Italian man. Becaus...
In six pages Emerson's influence in terms of one's self authority is considered as it is reflected in the protagonist of Edna Pont...
children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...
ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...