Kate Chopin A Style of her Own Kate Chopin uses symbolism and realism to enhance her theme of social conflict in the lives of women during the nineteenth century. These conflicts seemed to travel from one woman to the next, unnoticed by the rest of society. Chopin used these conflicts as a basis for all of her short stories and novels. This inevitably started turmoil about issues that never were brought out before. This, in …showed first 75 words of 1347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1347 total…author, which is what makes her a writer of literary merit. Bibliography Works Consulted Chopin, Kate. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1984. Klein, Leonard S. (editor). The Critical Temper. New York, NY: Fredrick Ungar Publishing Co., 1979. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1984. Ziff, Larzer. “Life and Times of a Lost Generation.” The Critical Temper. Ed. L.S. Klein. New York: Temper, 1986. 486 – 487.