The Awakening: By- Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 12, 1850, was the daughter of an immigrant Irishman and a French- American mother. Chopin, typically seen as a happy child, was the youngest of three children. At the age of five Chopin suffered from a great loss in her life, her father. Following this tragic event, she was forced to restructure her thoughts on life which were heavily put in order by her father. Her future upbringing would now primarily be supervised by women consisting of her widowed mother, widowed grandmother, and her widowed great-grandmother. “This lack would also prevent her from experiencing what was basically a fundamental social concept of her time—the tradition of submission of women to men in all social spheres, but especially that of marriage” (Ker). Many readers have suggested that the atmosphere she was raised in, lacking the representation of the typical male figure, is what affected Chopin’s determination of eventually finding the ultimate awaken...