• At the time Kate Choplin started writing,around the 1890's.the American way of life and action had seen vast changes,but the idea of true autonomy for women or the question of a single sexual standard for men and women was far from the limelight.it is no wonder then that Kate was then met with a dissaproving public reception,but in retrospect is considered a women ahead of her times;for Kate started her writing,with a frank potrayal of a woman's sexual social and spiritual awakening.Love and passion,marriage and independence,freedom and restraint became the major themes of her work.Born to an Irish-French family,Kate lost her father at an early age.however,she lived a comfortable life,surrounded by her widowed mother and her grandmother apart from other relatives.It is only natural to attribute her delicate understanding Of a women's point of view in a male dominated society to the influence of a feminine environment,and the absence of a patriarch .
Kate once qouted......
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