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"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...

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

American women writers exposed in their fiction the link between institutional and sexual exploitation of women and female mutenes...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

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

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...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

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

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 ...

studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

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

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

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

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...

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...

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

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...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

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...

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