Chopin 1
One of Kate Chopin unique styles of putting the readers in the mood of the moment of painting a picture of a person reminiscing of a very special time in their life-Namely Madame Valmonde ,first encounter with Desiree which introduce “Desiree Baby” and her husband Armand Aubigny and what his last name encompass.Recognizing that Kate Chopin story of Desiree Baby is influence by her past which is her reality .One cannot help too notice this plot of an individual “racism “& prejudice” views .Which backfires in the end,from the reading of his mother letter,certainly a rude awakening!Kate Chopin born Kate O”Flaherty in St.Louis,Missouri in 1850 to Eliza and Thomas O”Flaherty was the 3rd of the five children .In 1855 ,at the age of 5 and a half ,she was sent too “The Sacred Heart Academy”, a Catholic Boarding School.During the time there 2 months later her father was killed in a train accident.For the next 2 years she lived at home with her mother ,grandmother, & great-grandmother, all of them widows. Which certainly influence her strong sense of independence it also helps one to appreciate her adult life. In 1870, at the age of 20, she married Oscar Chopin, a 25 year old man, son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana, both of the same religious background, French Catholic. Although 12 years later her husband died with swamp fever, leaving her with debt & five boys and 2 girls. So in 1884 she moved back too ST. Louis, Missouri with her mother who eventually died, leaving her alone again. The relevance of this portion of her adult life is “It provides what circumstances gave her the notions too write- yes, too support herself and her young family. She immediately became a success, some of her “Major accomplishments (1) “Awakening” (which is inspired by a true story of a New Orleans woman, who was infamous in the French