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A 4 page paper which examines Kate
Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour" and discusses aspects of realism within.
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her social boundaries in many ways and her unique perspective on life can be seen through her numerous works. The following paper examines the realism presented in her short story
"Story of an Hour." Realism and Story of an Hour In discussing "Story of an Hour" and the realism present one must first perhaps understand something of the
woman who was Kate Chopin. At an early age her father died and this left her to be raised by her "mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows. Her
great-grandmother, Victoria Verdon Charleville oversaw her education and taught her French, music, and the gossip on St. Louis women of the past" (Wyatt). She essentially "grew up surrounded by smart,
independent, single women. They were also savvy and came from a long line of ground breaking women," such as Kates mother who "had been the first woman in St. Louis
to obtain legal separation from her husband, after which she raised her five children and ran a shipping business on the Mississippi" (Wyatt). This offers us a very informative understanding
of how and why Kate Chopin was such an independent writer and why she presented the reader with independent women, something not seen in literature of her time, but clearly
something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man who gave her the freedom to write and explore her own independent nature, despite
the fact that she gave birth to six children. However, when her husband died "Kates affair with another womans husband was a village scandal--but following the lessons of the French
women who raised her, she knew when to leave" (Unveiling Kate Chopin By Emily Toth). She moved her family to St. Louis and there began to write with great diligence.
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