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is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...