The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” is a story about a woman, Mrs.

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very smart when spending money, for her life style did not let her be wasteful, one
day she makes up her mind to spend money for herself alone and having done this she
does not even regret it. This is a typical woman`s story which discloses each
woman`s inner desire to at least once escape the reality and start doing what her
heart tells her without being aware of the consequences. In “A Pair of Silk
Stockings” Mrs. Sommers is first represented as a woman who is very attentive in
spending her money. 262) she didn`t want to spend the money for nothing and started
carefully making plans trying to figure out what the best way to spend it would be:
“For a day or two she walked about apparently in a dreamy state, but really
absorbed in speculation and calculation” (Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Nevertheless, when
she started shopping she didn`t manage to control her inner desire to spend those
fifteen dollars for her own needs. Under the influence of money Mrs. Being forced
to think only about her children and nothing else, with “the needs of the present”
which “absorbed her every faculty” (Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Sommers probably didn`t
even remember when she last paid any attention to herself as a woman. Her
unhappiness and inner dissatisfaction with her life develop into greediness and
desire to possess everything she didn`t have a chance to possess before. Even being
in the same financial situation she would respect herself as a woman because she
would think not only about the right ways of spending money every day but about
being a woman and a caring wife for her husband as well. Moreover, even if she
decided to spend money not for every day needs, she would probably spend it for the
pleasure of both, hers and her husband`s, which would not turn her into an
egocentric woman, even though she turned into such for one day only. In conclusion,
“Pair of Silk Stockings” shows that any woman, especially the one who experiences
financial problems, has an inner desire to live a luxurious life and dreams to turn
into somebody who she is not and will never be at least for one day in order to
find out how it feels to be a woman who is allowed to do what she wants rather than
what she has to.