"A Pair of Silk Stockings" was written by Kate Chopin in April of 1896 and later published in 1897. Known for including in her stories local color from the Louisiana area‚ Chopin is also celebrated for exploring themes that reflect the role of women in society. In "A Pair of Silk Stockings‚" she portrays the quiet struggle of a woman searching for a balance between family life and personal satisfaction. The story’s main character is Mrs. Sommers‚ a wife and mother. Her family is very poor‚ and
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family. (“On Impulse however this long-deprived woman spends all the money on herself‚ striving for one day at the least self-indulgence‚ one day that might hint of some personal autonomy in a pinched and narrowed existence” Kate Chopin: “A Pair of Silk Stockings”; The Marital Burden and the Lure of Consumerism Page 1) As Allen Stein pointed out “Further as Doris Davis sees it‚ Mrs. Sommers has used her money ‘to nurture her sense of esthetics’‚ and action that Chopin seems to suggest is important
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A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin is a story most single mothers can relate to. The struggle between doing what is needed‚ what is right for the family or giving into their own wants and desires for a day or two. In this story‚ Mrs. Summors is a poor mother that comes into fifteen dollars and she contemplates for two days on how to spend this money because she wants to make the most of this money. The story displays a theme of struggle between necessity and desires. She talks about buying
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Kate Chopin’s short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings”‚ a woman by the name of Mrs. Sommers comes into a fair amount of money for the first time in a long while. Mrs. Sommers ponders what she will buy‚ but soon discovers she can afford all the luxuries she has been denied over the past several year‚ and uses the money on herself rather than her children or husband. Her actions show that temptation and greed will prevail over selfless thoughts. “A Pair of Silk Stockings” starts with telling the reader
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11/9/11 English 9/10 H Imagine living in opulence for your entire childhood‚ and then living in poverty for the rest of your life. It would be unthinkably strange‚ and you would not know how to maintain a balanced life. The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin tells of a widow named Mrs. Summers who has lived very comfortably as a child but in poverty as she grew up. This is an example of realism. This story displays two types of realism: social realism and psychological realism
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A Pair of Silk Stockings Essay In the short story A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin‚ we see a great example of realism in the daily life of an average woman after the civil war. Mrs. Sommers lived her early life with a decent amount of luxury‚ but after getting married and having several kids‚ she has become quite cautious with her money. She is known to make her careful calculations and bargain her way to a better price. This can be considered foreshadowing for the experience to come‚ as
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Both A Pair of Silk Stockings and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin‚ were written from a third person point of view‚ making the story less subjective and more objective. As a result the reader is unable to put him or herself into the story. The narrative structures of A Pair of Silk Stockings and The Story of an Hour differ in that the setting‚ the time and overall story plots are completely different. There is one similarity that sticks out‚ both protagonists are selfish. There is really strong
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Angelique A. Auman English 10 Mr. Swenson November 9‚ 2014 “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin was a good example of what a single parent experiences in her daily life. Mrs. Sommers was a mother that puts her children before herself. She came across a decent amount of money but was captured by her own desires and forgot about her children. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the tone seems to be depressing at first then to exciting then
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theme I am going to analyze is the journey that the women in two stories experience as they search for their personal identities. Both “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin and “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck deal with the journey to one’s identity‚ but they do so in different ways. In 1896 Kate Chopin wrote the story‚ “A Pair of Silk Stockings”‚ it takes place in an unnamed city large enough to have a department store‚ a fashionable restaurant‚ a theatre‚ a cable car and most likely
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In “A Pair of Silk Stocking” and “A Story of An Hour” Mrs. Mallard and Mrs. Sommers related in many ways. They end up with news they greatly enjoy and forget all of there responsibilities Although Mrs. Sommers and Mrs. Mallards news were different they reacted the same way to it. During the 1900’s women had specific responsibilities‚ which Mrs. Malard and Mrs. Sommers forgot they had. By the news/ gifts they have both received In a way their reactions shows us some women are selfish and irresponsible
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