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one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

In four pages The Awakening by Kate Chopin is analyzed in terms of the roles of freedom and escapism. Four sources are cited in t...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

In five pages these Susan Glaspell and Kate Chopin short stories are contrasted and compared in terms of common threads of social ...

In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the conflict that exists between social expectations and human needs within th...

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

In five pages this paper discusses how Kate Chopin portrayed female sexuality in her short story 'The Storm.' There are no other ...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...