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In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...
was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...
In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
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...
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 ...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
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...
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...
one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...
dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...
and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
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...
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, ...
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...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
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...
undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...
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,...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...