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" I'dfirst read her when I was given a copy of The Awakening by a woman who said to me, "You should read this book," and the big question that we asked ourselves was how did Kate Chopin know all that in 1899?"Kate Chopin's novels and essays can be attributed very much to her childhood and her upbringing.Because of how she lived her life, the themes of women's sexually and emotional independence were seen repetitively in her writings.
Kate Chopin was born Catherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was one of five children, but unfortunately, both her sisters died in infancy and her brothers died in there twenties. When she was five years old, Kate was sent to a Catholic boarding school named The Sacred Heart Academy. Just months after she got there Kate;s father died in a train accident.Extremely upset, she was sent home to live with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of which happened to be widowers. Kate spent two years in the care of these women, before returning to her school.
Both at home with her family and at her school, Kate grew up surrounded by intelligent and independent women. Because of her father;s death, her childhood lacked male role models. Thus, she was rarely witnessed to the traditional acts of female submission and male domination that most of the marriages at this time encompassed. The themes of female freedom and sexual awareness that dominated Chopin’s essays and novels, especially in The Awakening, were undoubtedly a result of the strong female atmosphere in which she was raised.
Chopin stories on women's freedom were extremely controversial at this time, considering that under Louisiana law, a woman was still considered the property of her husband.Chopin’s wrote her second and final novel, The Awakening, which was published in 1899.Ironically, this work, which is now regarded as a classic, essentially…