Nineteenth-Century Expectations In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

The way people felt about Kate Chopin in her time was mixed. Some adored her and others despised her. “She upset many nineteenth century expectations for women and their supposed roles” (Kaplon). Women were supposed to cook and clean but Chopin would write about free women; women that would go out and make their own money. That was forbidden to even be thought about in her times. Kate Chopin “learned that her society would not tolerate her questionings” (gradesaver). Chopin wrote about transcending society and the world wasn’t ready for her forward thinking. Some people were ready though like Lucy Monroe, she “reviewed The Awakening for the March 1899, issue of Book News. Monroe's review praises Chopin's work as a "’remarkable novel’" and