ENGL222 Lecture Notes - Gothic Fiction, Kate Chopin
7 Mar 2014
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Family moved to a louisianna plantation and opened a general store. Began work as a writer of realist fiction. Women of the time often wrote gothic fiction or romance where they could be defiant and subversive through subtext, but chopin wrote very realistic and openly about life as a woman. Novel by chopin about the sexual independence of women. Results in a career scandal that causes many to denounce and even censor her work. Third-person limited from the perspective of louise mallard. Narrator leads the reader to certain conclusions by inserting her opinions on. The domestic sphere that has long been womens domain. Public: male - reason | private: female - emotion. Over the span of one hour, played out chronologically. Finds independence and self assertion that the other characters are unaware of. She has not been in a position of intellectual responslibility. Possibly linked not to physical disability but to the notion of.
