Kate Chopins
Kate Chopin's short stories Ripe Figs, The Story of an Hour, Desiree's Baby, and The Storm are very entertaining stories. They are organized in a simple, easy to understand format and the language used is free flowing. Literary devices such as irony are used in these stories to make then exciting and unique. Also, Chopin wrote about her region of New Orleans causing critics to refer to her writing as "quaint folk". Although Chopin wrote entertaining "quaint folk" stories her interests went beyond just entertainment as she tried to convey deep meaning into her stories. Ripe Figs is a story about Maman-Nainaine and her goddaughter Babette. Maman-Nainaine tells Babette that she may go visit her cousins down by the Bayou-Lafourche once the figs on their fig trees are ripe. Every day Babette goes to the fig trees and checks on the status of the figs. After some time Babette sees that the figs have ripened. Maman-Nainaine suggests that the figs have ripened early while Babette argues that they ripened late. (Chopin, Ripe Figs) Chopin uses images she is familiar with to tell this story. Fig trees were first grown in California and Mexico by Spanish missionaries. They then spread to several surrounding areas such as New Orl
Kate Chopin lived in Southern Louisiana, wrote about Southern Louisiana, and related to Southern Louisiana she wrote about themes all people can relate to. The irony in this is that his mother, whom Armand loved, was black and so was Armand. They came home, relaxed, and began to laugh and enjoy themselves. Chopin displays the harm bigotry can do in ones life. The Storm is a story in which Calixta and Alcee Laballiere have an affair together during a storm. (Cajun) Since these images are only common to the area in which Kate Chopin wrote readers may have difficulty relating to her stories and may label it as "quaint folk". The storm soon causes Calixta to fall into Alcee's arms and Alcee "touched her breast" and soon "possessed her". She allows him and he begins to help her take clothes hanging outside into shelter. One letter he saw though was one from Armand's mother to his father stating that she was black. Alcee Laballiere is caught in this storm and asks Calixta, a married woman, if he can take shelter in her house. Kate Chopin stresses the importance of sexual freedom for women. She shows the harm and stupidity in bigotry through Armand. Mallard is told by her sister that her husband had been killed in a railroad accident. However, the child's complexion soon darkened. Armand loves his wife and his child deeply yet banishes them when he thinks they are part black.
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