Regret

1897
By: Kate Chopin

Prepared by: Mark Uriel C.

Alciso
Kate Chopin
•1851-1904

•Born in St. Louis,

lived her married life
in Louisiana

•Returned to St. Louis

when her husband
died

•Turned to writing to
support her family
and create an identity
Family
• When Kate Chopin was a little girl,
she lost the majority of her closest
family.

• When she was a young girl, her

father passed away, and her mother
and spouse passed away quickly.

• She was left alone to manage their

five children after her husband's
death.
She came from a very well-off family and

felt the need to write and become more

independent after her husband passed

away, especially since she had no

remaining close family members after the

loss of her mother.

 Her work
In the 1890s, Kate Chopin released two novels and

about a hundred short stories.

Her best-known works primarily center on the

lives of perceptive, bright women, and the

majority of her fiction is set in Louisiana.

 Kate Chopin
• The majority of her works feature a
female protagonist attempting to make
her way through life while also
expressing both her individual
personality and her place in the family
and society.

• Because of the controversy surrounding

her work at the time, publishing it was
frequently challenging.
 • Inference - the process of arriving at some
conclusion that, though it is not logically
Literary
derivable from the assumed premises,
Term possesses some degree of probability relative
to the premises

LT • In literature, inference is "the act of examining

a story in order to determine what the story
means or what message the story is trying to
convey."
 The story takes place in Louisiana in the
late 1800s The characters speak a form
of English called "Creole," a variant
Creole
developed by French speaking people

C
who came to America over 200 years ago

This is not a story about slavery - this is

a free plantation owned by the main
character
 This narrative is pretty short, yet
it's also incredibly complete.
Back round
The reader is purposely left with the
impression that it is incomplete.

BR The story's female protagonist is

characteristic of Chopin's
protagonists in that she is on the
lookout for herself.
 ACTIVITIES

• Identify the use of inference of the story

ACTIVITY • Identify the theme of the story

#1

• Discussion: How does Chopin use inference to convey her

message (The theme)

THANKS