1. Kate Chopin "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

2. Biography
Catherine (Kate) O'Flaherty born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1850
grew up speaking both French and English
She was bilingual and bicultural

3. Biography attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart
As a girl, she was mentored by woman in her life
Much of the fiction Kate wrote as an adult draws on the nurturing she received from women as she was growing up.
In 1855, her father was killed in a railroad accident

4. Biography From 1867 to 1870 Kate kept a commonplace book
Husband was Oscar Chopin
Between 1871 and she gave birth to five sons and a daughter
1882 Oscar died of malaria-Kate became a widow at age thirty-two, with the responsibility of raising six children. She never remarried.

5. Novels and Short Stories
The Awakening
Story of an Hour
The Storm
Desiree's Baby
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Fedora
A Respectable Woman
At Fault

6. Story of An Hour
Louise Mallard's sister, Josephine, tells her about a railroad disaster and Brently, was on the list of those killed. Louise begins sobbing when Josephine tells her of Brently’s death and goes upstairs to be alone in her room. Later, she goes downstairs to find out Brently is still alive. She then dies of a heart failure.

7. Style Very descriptive with her writing Realistic and contemporary
More modern than anyone in her time

8. Themes women's search for selfhood, for self- discovery or identity.
women's revolt against conformity, often against gender conformity or against social norms, limiting women's possibilities in life.

9. Issues Wrote about women and their life struggles
Issue focused on women's rights
her portrayal of women's desires of independence and control of their own sexuality
Wrote about feelings. Kate Chopin is one of the earliest examples of modernism in the US; supposedly the first feminist wrier of her time

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Citations for bibliography:
"Kate Chopin." Angelfire: Welcome to Angelfire. Web. 16 Oct <
"Biography, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, The Storm, Stories." Kate Chopin: The Awakening, The Storm, Stories, Biography. Web. 16 Oct
 "Kate Chopin: Writing Style." Mibba Articles. Web. 16 Oct <
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