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This 3 page paper compares the writing styles of Kate Chopin, a Victorian writer and the contemporary Argentinean, Luisa Valenzuela. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Kate Chopin was an American writer whose work is being rediscovered and re-evaluated, with the result that she is getting the praise she deserves. At the time she wrote, however,
her frank handling of the theme of womans sexuality (most notably in her 1899 book The Awakening, probably her best and most famous work) shocked her audiences and earned
her scorn and active enmity (Katherine Chopin). As a writer in the Victorian era, notorious for its repressed sexuality, she might have expected this reaction but apparently she did not;
its speculated that her disappointment in the reaction to the book hastened her death in 1904 (Katherine Chopin). Her short stories A respectable woman and Regret are fascinating
psychological portraits of women, and they ring very true. In the first, Gaston Baroda brings his friend Gouvernail home for a visit; his wife (who is referred to only as
"Mrs. Baroda") is not enthusiastic about the house guest (Chopin). But as the visit goes on, for reasons she cannot explain to herself, Mrs. Baroda is drawn to him (Chopin).
But he is never anything but a perfect gentleman and she makes no move, though she fantasizes about it: "Her physical being was for the moment predominant. She was
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 with the sensitive tips
of her fingers upon the face or the lips. She wanted to draw close to him and whisper against his cheek - she did not care what - as she
might have done if she had not been a respectable woman" (Chopin). This is exquisite writing, and Chopin captures all the yearning within Mrs. Baroda, as well as the self-imposed
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