Unafraid to write and publish controversial content.usually worked in her home surrounded by her children.Wrote very rapidly and without much revision.Women ignored men’s carousing, bore children, and refined their musical, artistic, and conversational talents.Women expected to provide well-kept homes and many children.Enjoyed: gambling, entertainment, social gatherings.Saw themselves as different from Anglo-Americans.“The Angel in the House” Man must be pleased but him to pleaseIs woman's pleasure down the gulfOf his condoled necessitiesShe casts her best, she flings herself.How often flings for nought, and yokesHer heart to an icicle or whim,Whose each impatient word provokesAnother, not from her, but him While she, too gentle even to forceHis penitence by kind replies,Waits by, expecting his remorse,With pardon in her pitying eyes And if he once, by shame oppress'd,A comfortable word confers,She leans and weeps against his breast,And seems to think the sin was hers Or any eye to see her charms,At any time, she's still his wife,Dearly devoted to his arms She loves with love that cannot tire And when, ah woe, she loves alone,Through passionate duty love springs higher,As grass grows taller round a stone. Edna’s actions reflect changing feelings about what a woman’s life should be.1800’s saw a change in the status of women.Her fiction repeatedly deals with female characters’ efforts to find place, love, and autonomy in a society that denies these needs.Chopin denied that she was a feminist or a suffragette.“Regional literature incorporates the broader concept of sectional differences, but some critics have argued convincingly that the distinguishing characteristic that separates ‘local color’ writers from ‘regional’ writers is instead the exploitation of and condescension toward their subjects that the local color writers demonstrate” (From the Encyclopedia of Southern Literature).According to the Oxford Companion to American Literature, "In local-color literature one finds the dual influence of romanticism and realism, since the author frequently looks away from ordinary life to distant lands, strange customs, or exotic scenes, but retains through minute detail a sense of fidelity and accuracy of description" (439).Characters find life dull and are often unhappy, but find touches of joy and beauty in life (M.Topics covered include love, marriage, parenthood, infidelity, and death.Characters drawn to present the reader with the illusion of actual experience.Presents an accurate imitation of life.
Kate Chopin & The Awakening Edited by Nina Lee Braden
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