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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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

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...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

In seven pages this paper analyzes relationships and self containment within the context of the play and Kate's 'shrewish' attribu...

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

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...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

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...

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...