Kate Chopin

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The paper portrays Kate Chopin as a brilliant author and a fighter for women's rights in society. The paper centers on the book by Chopin,"The Awakening" which is a frank portrayal of a woman's social, sexual, and spiritual awakening. The paper criticizes the critics of Chopin's book who denounced it and caused it to be banned from general use. Finally the author concludes,in his opinion, that Kate Chopin was too early for her time in her opinions, but in modern day she would have been accepted.

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"Whether readers understood many of the implied messages in Chopin's stories, they enjoyed the fine detail of her style, spare in its narrative but shaped by sensual detail of the soft southern nights, of the delights of food and dancing, of flirtation and sexual anticipation. But when Edna Pontellier, raised in Presbyterian propriety and a mother of two sons, responds to another Alcee, Chopin, the public thought, had gone too far. "I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not" she tells the young man she loves: "I give myself where I choose. "

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