The Locket
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Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Women
ISBN:1588276627
About the Author
Born in St. Louis to a comfortable family, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) grew up a voracious reader. After her education, she was married at the early age of twenty. By age twenty-eight, she had borne six children. Although Chopin and her husband settled in New Orleans originally, strained finances forced their family to relocate to rural Louisiana. Here, Chopin began to make observations into human nature and society that would fuel the striking characters and settings of her later writings. Chopin's husband died suddenly, and she moved her family back to St. Louis, where she was further shattered by the subsequent death of her mother. When her family doctor suggested writing as a way to draw herself out of depression, Chopin found her calling. She enjoyed success through stories published in literary magazines, but when her novel The Awakening debuted, she found that she had pushed the boundaries of convention and propriety too far for the American public. Chopin's striking depiction of a married woman who forsakes her husband, children, and home for the love of another man was simply too much for contemporary readers. Chopin, crushed by this negative response, retreated from the spotlight. Though her works were not published for many years following her death, they are now considered to be valuable and provocative expressions of the unvoiced passions, thoughts, and ambitions of women constrained by the rules of an earlier age.
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One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. One of the men was heating something in a tin cup over the ...
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4/5
Reviewed by Mokachic on Sep 10, 2009
Nice read
A nice and captivating short story.
4/5
Reviewed by caseyapplebox on Apr 21, 2009
The Locket review
A sweet and hopeful short story
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Ratings for 'The Locket' by Chopin, Kate
| babblative | | 2009-03-23 | |
| BabsG | | 2008-12-07 | |
| caseyapplebox | | Read review | 2009-04-21 |
| mmreyna1 |  | 2009-06-20 | |
| Mokachic | | Read review | 2009-09-10 |
| MonicaR | | 2009-09-04 |
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