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In four pages this paper examines the life of Southern author Kate Chopin and considers how her life influenced her feminist style of writing. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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roots and Roman Catholic parentage would write about gender equality, unapologetic sexuality, and adultery? Kate Chopin was a mass of contradictions, which are reflected in her writings. It
is impossible for an artist to create without a muse or source of inspiration. For Kate Chopin, these came from her life and her surroundings, both of which liberated
her to test the boundaries imposed by nineteenth-century society and through her writings open a feminist dialogue that would begin to question gender constraints. Born Katherine OFlaherty on February
8, 1850 to Thomas and Eliza Faris OFlaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, Kate Chopin was Irish on her fathers side and a proud descendent of the French Creole aristocracy on
her mothers side (Bloom 11). Eliza OFlaherty was the authors first important female role model to influence profoundly her life and her writing. Proud slave-owning supporters of the
Confederacy during the Civil War, her merchant father provided amply for his family, who lived a comfortable life in their Eighth Street home (Beer and Nolan 7).
But Kate Chopins harmonious family life was changed forever when Thomas OFlaherty was killed in a railway accident in 1855. According to biographer
Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual that already has "rebellion in her eye" (qtd. in Beer and Nolan 6). After her fathers death, she
was raised in a matriarchy that included her widowed mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. It was reportedly her great-grandmother, Victorie Verdon Charleville, who shared with Kate scandalous stories of St.
Louis female free spirits that titillated the child and imbued her with a sense of a feminist culture distinct from prevailing patriarchy (Beer and Nolan 7). She also
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