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In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

of status that is generally given to males by males. Only a woman could speak so clearly to the manner in which woman question th...

In 8 pages this paper contrasts and compares the characters of Janie and Olenka in these works by Hurston and Chekhov. Two source...

This paper discusses the employment opportunities for women and what influenced them in a comparative analysis of these novels con...

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

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 ...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

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

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

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

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...