The short story "Desiree's Baby-, by Kate Chopin, incorporates very interesting twists and turns capturing the reader's attention, while provoking thoughts on issues deeper than the text itself. Kate Chopin depicts the ignorance and the stupidity of racism and chauvinism in a realistic way. ... In her novel The Great Awakening, she addresses women's roles in society and relationships with men. ... Kate Chopin was one of these individuals who was down on her luck with six children. ... Kate Chopin was born fourteen years before slavery was abolished so must have had strong fee...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

The Story of an Hour was written by Kate Chopin and originally published in Vogue on December 16, 1894. This text is one of Kate Chopin's most famous stories and one of the shortest. ... In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ... Kate Chopin uses irony in which she makes the readers to understand that Mrs. ... Mallard's "heart trouble" is a Kate Chopin's iron...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
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