Drawdy presentation
- 1. Home: St. Louis, Missiouri (1850-1904) “The beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.”- Kate ChopinKATE CHOPIN
- 2. Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty , live all her life in St. Louis, Missouri. She was known as a “Rebel” who fought on even after the death of her father and half brother while she was still young. Her Great Grandmother Madame Charleville introduced Kate to story telling, giving her the chance to open up into her own person. They were a family of high society and well off, but even then Kate married into it also. Then after having six kids with her first husband Oscar, he left her as a widow, dying of Swamp Fever. Shortly after his death her mother passed also, leaving open invitation for Kate to take a new Route in her life. She begin to study science, gave up her Catholicism, and begin to write and publish. Chopin's stories often deal with characters who face choices between what society expects of them and what they really desire. Giving way to the uproar over “the Awakening” women of that time did not do as she did. Soon after she suffered a stroke while attending the St. Louis World Fair passing away in 1904.
- 3. Published in 1899,“The Awakening” created a scandal because of its portrayal of a strong, unconventional woman involved in an adulterous affair. While Kate Chopin never flouted convention as strongly as did her fictitious heroine, she did exhibit an individuality and strength remarkable for upper- middle-class women of the time.
- 4. Among her other writings Include: “The Storm” “ The Story of an Hour “ “ A pair of Silk Stockings’ “At the ‘Cadian Ball” ( Prequel to “The Storm”) “A respectable woman,”“Beyond the Bayou” (A children's story)“A no account Creole“(first short story) “Athenaise “ “A point at Issue” and many more.
- 5. THE END