How Did Kate Chopin Impact On The Blind Man

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Author Kate Chopin, who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Realism period. Particularly, in her work titled “The Blind Man”, written in 1897 we can evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Realist movement which was extant in American letters between 1850 and 1900. As a representative of such a movement, Kate Chopin then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of her time. Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis Missouri. She died August 22, 1904 in St. Louis Missouri. Her parents were Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. She was the third child of five. Her sisters died and infancy. And her step brothers from her father’s first marriage died in their early twenties. …show more content…

Her father died two months after she was sent to the boarding school in a train accident. After her father died she lived with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother at home which were all widows. During this time her great grandmother taught her French, Music, and the gossip on St. Louis. After the two years passed she returned to The Sacred Heart Academy. She was top of her class; she won medals, she was elected into the elite Children of Mary Society, and delivered the commencement address. She had one close female friend named Kitty Garesche. She grew up during the civil war, which separated her and her friend Kitty. After the war was over they reunited again until Kitty became a nun in The Sacred Hearts Academy. Her half-brother died in the war of typhoid fever and in 1863 her grandmother died three days before Christmas. These Rebecca Gutierrez 1 st Block experiences combined with her father’s death 8 years ago created a strong doubt of religion in Kate. When she turned twenty in 1870 she married a twenty-five year old man named Oscar Chopin. They lived in New Orleans where they had five boys and two girls. She had all her children before she was 28 years old. Her husband Oscar was the son of a wealthy

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