After a few years as a society belle, she married Oscar Chopin in 1870, the son of a wealthy cotton farmer in Louisiana. ... In that year, after years of failure in business, Oscar moved the family to his old home in a small town in Northwest, Louisiana. ... After the reaction to her novel, Chopin wrote only a few more stories. ... Chopin's writing employs the "local color" style of the era that took for its subject matter the very traits and characteristics of a particular place and time. ... In Chopin's fiction, the issue of women's independence plays a central role, especiall...

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• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin was born Katherine O"Flaherty in St. ... In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, and the new couple moved to Louisiana, which became the setting for many of her short stories. ... Chopin's earliest story "Wiser Than a God" focuses on her desire for female independence. ... In 1882, Chopin's husband, Oscar, dies from swamp fever. ... Chopin's career is cut short when her last novel "The Awakening" is published in 1899. ...

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On June 9, 1870, Kate O"Flaherty married Oscar Chopin of Louisiana in St. ... Just when Oscar Chopin's business began to prosper on December 10, 1882 he passed away. By mid-1884, Chopin and her family had back to St. ... Chopin's writing became known as unconventional. ... Chopin took these criticisms to heart. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even her marriage to Oscar Chopin did not change her views as he allowed her be herself and express her views as she pleases. ... She married Oscar Chopin in the 1870's after graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Oscar and Kate had six children over the course of nine years. ... However, after graduating The Academy of the Sacred Heart in 1868, she later got married to Oscar Chopin (Deter 1). Oscar allowed Chopin to express herself the way she wanted to (Ashe 1). ...

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Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, nee Catherine O"Flaherty, was born "[ ]according to her baptismal certificate, on February 8th1850 [ ]" (Toth 3), in St Louis Missouri. ... In 1870, Kate met and married Oscar Chopin, a Creole New Orleans native. ... By 1879, Kate and Oscar had had five children, all boys, and Oscar's cotton business had begun to fail. ... Kolbenheyer was Kate Chopin's pivotal axis. ... Kate Chopin died on August 22, 1904. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was raised in St. ... Her marriage to Oscar Chopin by all accounts was a happy one. ... Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. ... No longer Eliza O'Flaherty's daughter or Oscar Chopin's wife, Kate Chopin was forced to find a new role for herself. ... (Chopin 113). ...

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Kate Chopin: "The Storm" Kate Chopin lived from 1851 until 1904. ... She married Oscar Chopin, moved to New Orleans, and had six children. After her husband died, Chopin moved back to St. ... Chopin then sets her characters in a classic 'love scene' next to the window. ... Chopin is taking the stereotype of women as inferior and emotional and reversing it. ...

• Word Count: 1280
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin's main focus is Mrs. ... In The Awakening, Chopin explores a woman's choice to become independent. ... In 1870, at age twenty, Kate wed her husband, Oscar Chopin. ... Her independence may have been what attracted Oscar to Kate. ... Twelve years after marriage, Oscar died, leaving Kate with six children and much debt. ...

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Chopin was born in St. ... Tragically, Chopin's Grandmother died soon after George's death, resulting in Chopin suffering from severe depression. ... On June 9, 1870, Kate O"Flaherty was married to Oscar Chopin in Louisiana. As a worker at a nearby cotton factory Oscar provided well for his wife and six children. Their marriage lasted for twelve wonderful years until Oscar became ill and died of swamp fever in December of 1882 (Koloski 93). ...

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The Story of an Hour The Usage of Irony In the story of an hour, Kate Chopin uses a great amount of irony to accomplish many unexpected twists and turns. What Chopin is trying to make us understand through irony, is that freedom, in the 19th Century is something women are not entitled to; and the few who experience it, shall never lose it, for otherwise, their lives would feel as if they had died. ... Kate Chopin makes a very interesting connection with the feelings of the woman. Since Chopin had become a widow at a very young age too. Oscar Chopin, her husband, died in December of 188...

• Word Count: 429
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Catherine O"Flaherty Chopin was born on June 12, 1850 in St. ... In June, 1870, Kate married Oscar Chopin of New Orleans, a Creole cotton broker. ... In 1872, Oscar died suddenly, leaving Kate to raise six children on her own. ... Feeling alone and without identity, Chopin turned to writing to express her feelings and emotions. ... The Awakening allows readers to see the mature and developed novelist, Kate Chopin, come into her own. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin was an incredible woman. ... She was married the same year of her graduation at the age of 19 to a Creole cotton trader, Oscar Chopin. ... In 1879, Oscar's business failed, and the family moved to a Louisiana plantation called Nachitoches. The widowed Chopin moved back to St. ... This sounds almost exactly like Chopin's life style. ...

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Kate Chopin was only married once, and it was to Oscar Chopin, a prosperous cotton farmer. ... Kate and Oscar had six children, five boys and one girl. ... In 1882 Oscar died of Malaria, and Kate raised the children on her own. Two years after Oscar died Kate and her children moved in with her mother. ... Kate Chopin's "The Storm" is one of Kate Chopin's less famous short stories. ...

• Word Count: 999
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After her father's untimely death in 1855, Chopin was raised by her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother (Ker 1). ... With no strong male figure consistently in her life Chopin married Oscar Chopin in 1870, and was widowed in 1882. ... At the age of thirty-nine Chopin began her career as strong-willed feminist writer (Haywood 2). ... Chopin opens the story by introducing Mrs. ... Chopin's influential message is that of happiness. ...

• Word Count: 704
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When she was nineteen, she married Oscar Chopin, a twenty-five-year-old French-Creole businessman. ... Kate and Oscar were very happy together and soon they were a part of the high society. Oscar tolerated Kate's "unconventional" ways, even though relatives warned him not to. Oscar treated her as an intellectual equal and didn't seem to mind that she smoked, drank, and behaved as her own person. ... Luckily, Oscar Chopin had been a successful businessman. ...

• Word Count: 4614
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• Grade Level: High School

So take a journey with me to reveal Kate Chopin: The life and death of a famous author; a story in its own. Kate Chopin was born Katherine O"Flaherty on February 8, 1850 of an Irish and French descent in St. ... At the age of 19, Kate met Louisiana native Oscar Chopin, age 25, son of a wealthy cotton growing family. ... When Oscar's brokerage business failed in 1879, he decided to move north to his family's plantations in Natchitoches Parish, and it was then that Kate became acquainted with the Creole community that became such an important focus of her writing. In 1882, Oscar c...

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The Awakening Kate Chopin was born in St. ... At the age of 19 she married Oscar Chopin and moved to Louisiana where she spent the remainder of her life. ... Kate Chopin uses many different themes in her writing, all of them different yet very much alike. ... -(Chopin 477). ... However, it is not a solution because she is still cooped up and "two steps away-(Chopin). ...

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Classical and Romantic composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Stravinsky, and Mozart are some of the first that come to mind. ... A social genius who rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous of two continents. a natural athlete, a painter of considerable talent, a generous, gregarious man with an ego the size of a ballroom who helped promote the careers of other musicians such as Vernon Duke, and Oscar Levant, George was your modern "rock star." ... The son of immigrant parents, George became one of America's first premier composers and his compositions are still used today as tool o...

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Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, is another literary example of the angel in the house. ... " -Oscar Wilde 3.3 Views on Sexuality Young woman were trained to be loving and emotional, without sexuality. ...

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