Kate Chopin on Divine Love and Suicide: Two Rediscovered Articles
1991; Duke University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2926566
ISSN1527-2117
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis
ResumoTN The Awakening, Kate Chopin called Edna's dual life I outward existence which conforms, inward life which questions.1 Two contemporary interviews that I have found in St. Louis Post-Dispatch suggest that while Chopin claimed outwardly that she had serious ambitions or thoughts, she was inwardly questioning nature of love and significance of suicide while she wrote The Awakening. In her lifetime, Chopin was best known as author of charming Louisiana stories, especially those in her first collection, Bayou Folk (I894). Two personality profiles that year, by her friends Sue V. Moore and William Schuyler, told readers about her St. Louis antecedents, her years of marriage and motherhood in Louisiana, and her embarking on a literary career after death of her husband. According to Moore, Chopin was the exact opposite of a bluestocking, with no literary affectations and 'fads' or 'serious purpose' in life. According to Schuyler, Chopin was a spontaneous writer who often produced a story in one sitting, and then, after a little, copies it out carefully, seldom making corrections. She never retouches after that.2
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