“ I’d first read her when I was given a copy of The Awakening by a woman who said to me, “You should read this book,” and the big question that we asked ourselves was how did Kate Chopin know all that in 1899?” Kate Chopin’s novels and essays can be attributed very much to her childhood and her upbringing. Because of how she lived her life, the themes of women’s sexually and emotional …showed first 75 words of 812 total…

…showed last 75 words of 812 total…upbringing is undoubtedly a reason for her ideas and views on women in this novel. Chopin saw the feminist movement just start to arise as she was growing up. So she saw women make vast changes for themselves, and to our future for women, when she was in her older years. Because of these reasons, I feel that Kate Chopin was able to make very accurate predictions of what the future would hold for women. .