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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...

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...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

of independence. Independence in different roles not only the role of the auditor, but also independence within remuneration and s...

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...

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

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

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

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 ...