Biography of Kate Chopin Literary Response

In Kate Chopin’s biography, it explains the ups and downs this devoted writer had gone through to get where she is now. She had to experience so many deaths and tragedies with her family that she had to learn how to be independent and support herself and her family. Even though this probably was a hard task for Chopin, she could achieve it because she came from a long line of smart, independent, single women. Kate began to write to support her family and became very successful with her writings and sketches. Some of Chopin’s writings were even based on events and people she knew within her lifetime. People stand on what they know and Chopin took that into play when writing her short stories and essays. For example, The Awakening was a novel that was based on “a true story of a New Orleans woman who was infamous in the French Quarter” (Bio. of Kate Chopin, Paragraph 7).
Like stated before, some of Chopin’s writings were based on events and people knew. Therefore the root of her stories was influenced widely from her experiences. Another example of these influences is her novel The Story of An Hour. In this novel, Mrs. Mallard, the main character, was ecstatic when she found out that her husband had pasted away, not because she didn’t love, but because she had no freedom with him. By him dying, Mrs. Mallard was finally taken out of bondage. Many women in that century did not have that advantage. They were ultimately controlled by their husbands and had no say whatsoever in their life. Though this isn’t what Chopin had to go through because her husband allowed her to have some freedom, she believed that is was still necessary to show women how they were being treated by men. Chopin voiced her strong opinions through her books that led to consequences, such as not being admitted to the St. Louis Fine Arts Club.
Kate Chopin had proven herself to be just like all the women in her family. She was intelligent, independent, and single, but was also triumphant in every novel she wrote. Chopin stood on what she knew about life, society, and success; as a result, her life and success shaped her career and her fiction novels.