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La Belle Zoraide By Kate Chopin
In the short story, “La Belle Zoraide” by Kate Chopin, the issue of marriage creates a conflict among the main characters. Zoriade and her mistress do not agree on who Zoraide should marry. The mistress, Madame Delariviere, wants Zoraide to marry M’sieur Ambroise and says that “[i]t is a union that will please me”(Chopin 196). However, Zoraide tells her mistress that her only love is Mezor. As a result, Delariviere becomes “speechless with rage” and prevents her servant form seeing or communicating with Mezor (Chopin 197). The conflicting wants of the two characters leave Zoraide heartbroken and her mistress disappointed. Nevertheless, Mezor manages to make Zoraide pregnant. The intriguing part of the story consists of the mistrust between
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