How Is Kate Chopin's At Fault And The Awakening?

Kate Chopin, O'Flaherty was her maiden name, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on February 8, 1850 and died on August 22, 1904 also in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

She grew up in a family in which both French and English were spoken. Her mother was a member of the French community in St. Louis and her father a successful businessman from Ireland. From the very beginning, she had to confront many misfortunes. In 1855, with just 5 years, her father was killed in a railroad accident. Later, her great grandmother with whom she had a close relation died. Moreover, as it was the time of the Civil War in St. Louis, she had to cope with slaves in her house and finally, her half brother died of typhoid fever after being enlisted in the Confederate

Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. Kate Chopin was influenced by Guy de Maupasaant. He was a French novelist of the nineteenth century and was considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. Kate Chopin describes his style as direct and simple and that, in his works, was life, not fiction. Besides, he used old fashioned techniques that created the art of story shorts. Putting together Guy and Kate, she had the capacity of perceive life and put it down on her novels in a very creative way. Among them, the most famous stories are: A Matter of Prejudice, A Respectable Woman, Desiree's Baby, which was written on November 24, 1892, and published in Vogue on January 14, 1893. It was the first of the nineteen Kate Chopin short stories that Vogue published. The Storm, which was written on July 19, 1898, and published in The complete work of Kate Chopin in 1969. This novel is about a woman whose husband and child are out in a rainy day and they could not return to home due to the storm. She deceives her husband with another man, Alcée, but, when her husband and her child returns, Alcée is not at home and Calixta acts as if nothing had happened. In addition, we can see that there is a kind of influence in The awakening due to these two reasons:

Louis World's Fair, Kate started complaining of a pain in her head, to which doctors thought that she had had a cerebral hemorrhage. However, the next day she lapsed into unconsciousness and died at the age of 54. Nowadays, Kate Chopin is considered as one of America’s essential authors, intelligent, liberal and