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be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

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

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

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 human nature and the conflict that exists between social expectations and human needs within th...

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

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

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 this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

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

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 sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

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

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...

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

life in particular?revivalism (Foner; Garraty PG). Although the initial impetus of the first Great Awakening would subside...

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of the author's psychological and sociological objectives and how they are exp...