How society punishes women in Kate Chopins stories

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Subject Area:Religion

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Kate was third among the five children however her sisters died at their infancy and her half-brothers in their early twenties, Kate was raised under French and Irish traditions and after her father died, she developed a close relationship with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Kate graduated from sacred heart convent in St. Louis in the year 1868 and afterward getting married to Oscar Chopin in the year 1870, after the death of her husband in 1882 she began writing short stories, translations, and articles by early 1890s. Kate died on 22nd August 1904 aged fifty-four years in St. Louis, Missouri. From the story, even though Mallard loves her husband she seems to be unsatisfied with her marriage, the thought of being free indicates that she is in a somehow cruel marriage.

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Though not showing it directly she seems to be dominated by her husband in their marriage “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (line 43). , thus on hearing the news of her husband's death she is deeply hearted weeps for a while but finally gets over it and is filled with a sigh of relief feeling free from her married life. Another way that Mrs. Mallard suffers is from the grief of her husband’s death. Additionally, in the belongings were also letters that they both send each other during their courtship and also one written from his mother written to his father unveiling that Armand was the one who had an African ancestry from his mother.

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How Calixta Suffers in The Short Story the Storm In the short story the storm, Calixta is in a happy marriage, works hard to maintain and take care of her home. Despite Calixta’s efforts and passion in taking good care of her home through cleaning of the house and doing other chores, she gets mud when her child Bibi and husband drug mud into the house (Call 14-15). Calixta has to maintain the cleanliness of her home even though at times her husband and child bring mud into the house. She also suffers and gets disturbed mentally during the storm, she is worried about her husband and child safety who are out in the storm “Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety” (line 15).

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Upon hearing her husband’s death, Mallard weeps for a while but finally gets over it and is taken over by the joy of being free from her marriage. The storm a short story also narrating about Calixta being happily married to her husband, reveals how married women suffer in the name of marriage, she is happily married and even looks prettier than before but misses the attention from her husband, it is seen that she misses the moments when they were first married and ends up having an affair with her then-boyfriend named Alcee. She is excited when she sees him at her courtyard and during the storm so they finally get a chance to be together and after the storm, she appears much happier than before.

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