Kate Chopin Research Paper

Kate Chopin was born in 1850 into an Irish Catholic family in St. Louis Missouri. Her childhood was not as exciting. She was the only one of her four siblings to survive, she was sent to boarding school, and her father died when she was just a little kid. She later grew up with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and chose to go back to boarding school where she excelled. Her rough life took her on the path that not many have traveled or would even want to travel. She began to write to support her family. Most of her works relate back to her life, but may be difficult to connect. When writing she oftens has the theme of love. Love is described in many ways in some of her short stories, but when connecting it to her life it is found by the love she never had or the love she chose to have. …show more content…
Mallard who just lost her husband in a train accident. The women then begins to realize about the freedom she has. This can be connected to the theme of love by saying that love may be extinguished. Chopin writes, “Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own (17)”. Mrs. Mallard love for her husband slowly died away because she realised how much freedom she now had. This is just like Kate Chopin’s love for her life which was slowly being extinguished once her father passed away in a train accident. She also grew up without any siblings because they died as babies, but she was too young to have any feelings towards that. Death was a very tragic and large part of her

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