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Kate Chopin

OUTLINE

I. General Background Information
a. Father dies at age of five.
i. Kate Chopin’s father dies suddenly, and so, at five years old, Kate is forced to reshape her concept of herself and her world. After her father's death, Kate's family included her widowed mother, her widowed grandmother and her widowed great-grandmother.
b. Marries and has six children.
i. Married a wealthy Creole cotton magnate, Oscar, moved to New Orleans and gave birth to six children.
c. Husband dies & Chopin begins to seriously write.
i. Chopin’s husband dies and she realizes that she needs to turn her writings into a way to support herself and her six children.
II. Chopin’s Feminist Writings
a. “Wiser Than A God”
i. In 1889, Chopin published her first two stories, "Wiser Than a God" and "A Point at Issue," both focusing on what would prove to be her favorite theme—the inherent conflict between the traditional requirement that a wife form her life around her husband's and a......


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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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