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Importance of the Unknown Letter Writer in 'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin

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

Kate Chopin's and Guy de Maupassant's Writing Style

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and an Evaluation of Minor Female Characters

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 ...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Analyzing 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

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

Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

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

Human Nature and Conflict in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

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

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Themes of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages this paper discusses what is meant by flight symbolism in this thematic analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. T...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

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

Stories of the Nineteenth Century That Feature 'Unruly' Women

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

At Fault by Kate Chopin

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

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

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

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Summary and Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

Literature and Freedom Themes

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 ...

Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon

them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin's 'The Storm and 'Story of An Hour' with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

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

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and the Theme of Love

with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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 ...

Feminism and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Human Destruction

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

Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

Life in Reverse in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

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