The Awakening
Kate Chopin, 1899
A New Orleans wife discovers desire and her own opinion, and refuses to give either back. Condemned in 1899; it now reads like a self being invented.
Kate Chopin
1850–1904
Chopin, widowed at thirty-two, ran a country store in Louisiana before turning to fiction, and translated Maupassant, whose cold, exact narration shaped her own.
Feels like longing, melancholy and defiance.
The double life most people lead without ever giving it a name.
Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions. Books by Kate Chopin
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