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An 8 page paper which examines the author’s use of such fiction elements as character, plot, point of view, setting, symbolism and irony, considering how each contributes and reinforces the story’s theme. Also discussed is a personal opinion of the story, along with critical opinions which support and dispute this contention, and also considers how the author reflects the time period (and the place) in which the story was written, portrays men and women, ponders whether or not her gender is reflected, and offers a response to the work. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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nineteenth-century social structure, which was part Victorian and part Southern plantation. It was a place where women were regarded as attractive male appendages and little more. Thoughts, opinions,
and desires were reserved for men, while women, like children, were supposed to be seen and not heard. Born Katherine OFlaherty in St. Louis in 1851, she was a
child of Southern privilege, with a French-Creole mother and an Irish immigrant father (Gilbert and Gubar 991). She met and married Creole businessman Oscar Chopin in 1870, and by
all appearances, fulfilled her feminine responsibilities admirably, as an obedient wife and devoted mother of six (Gilbert and Gubar 991). By all appearances, Kate Chopin fulfilled her feminine responsibilities
admirably. She was an obedient wife to Oscar and dedicated mother to their six children (Gilbert and Gubar 991). However, Kate Chopins world dramatically changed when her husband
died in 1883, and she began to seriously pursue her love of writing (Gilbert and Gubar 991). It is important for
the student who is writing about the works of Kate Chopin to consider that this was the time when a combination of realism and naturalism was the popular literary genre.
Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to contend that man (or woman) "was a prisoner of
his [or her] biological inheritance and his [or her] social environment" (Wilkie and Hurt 1136). American literature embraced this Western European literary style during the 1880s, and it is
featured prominently in Kate Chopins works, especially in her short story, "Desirees Baby." The story was Chopins way of addressing the social issues of her time which she felt
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