Kate Chopin:

It deals with role of women in marriage , and this does reflect Chopin’s own opinions on
the plight of women in the society with respect to their roles in marriage. Her father, Thomas
O’Flaherty, died when she was five, and she spent her childhood among women: her mother,
Eliza; grandmother; great-grandmother; and the nuns who ran her school. In 1870, Chopin
married Oscar Chopin and moved with him to New Orleans, where they had six children. Not long
after the family moved to Louisiana because of social and political problems in New Orleans,
Oscar Died immediately. Kate Chopin mourned his death deeply but eventually embraced her
independence, even going so far as to having an affair with a married man. Kate soon returned
to St. Louis, where she would spend the rest of her life. Kate Chopin began writing fiction in 1889.
She wrote about life and people in Louisiana and focused her attention on love, sex, marriage,
women, and independence.