Kate Chopin was an American feminist fiction writer and a woman ahead of her time. She lived in the socially conservative nineteenth-century, but in her stories, she wrote about unconventional characters, particularly women, that caused others to question her morality. Similar to the female characters in her stories, Kate Chopin was an independent woman. She would often smoke cigarettes or walk in the streets unaccompanied; these practices were considered unusual for a nineteenth-century woman to do (“Katherine Chopin”). One critic points out that many of Chopin’s stories are characteristic of “independent heroines” and their conjugal relationships (qtd. in Hicks). “The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm” are two of Chopin’s feministic short stories that focus on women and their views on marriage. .
“The Story of an Hour,” published in 1894, highlights woman self-assertion when the protagonist, Louise Mallard, rejoices after hearing of her husband’s death. Unlike most women may have......
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