Kate Chopin and The Awakening <Tab/>Kate Chopin, born Catherine O'Flaherty was born on July 12, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was a French-American, Eliza Faris and her father Thomas, an Irish immigrant. They were a happy family until her father died suddenly in 1855. A life surrounded by a father figure had ceased. She then had only female role models in her widowed mother, widowed grandmother and widowed great grandmother. Her …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…though it is not right, men are still the dominant sex and women continue to rebel against being forced to live the life of a stereotypical "house wife". Women back then had to fight just for their husbands to even let them get a job, make their own money, have their own life. Overall, this novel has many important messages that continue to be issues that are argued today between the male and female races.