Kate Chopin Sexist Analysis

Was Kate Chopin a Sexist?

Kate Chopin as a women and writer was very ahead of her time. When women were supposed to be quiet and obey their husbands, Chopin had the guts to speak her mind through the characters in many of her short stories and novels. An example "The story of an Hour".

The Story of an hour pulls the reader into the mind of a woman realizing her spirit and potential and she can now be what she wants to be- free and independent from her husband. The story is about a women finding out of her husbands death in a train crash. She at first is saddened and then is joyous when she realizes she is now free and may do as she wishes. But at the end her husbands returns, the accounts of his death were not accurate and he returns