For Discussion #4, please provide 1-2 paragraphs for your response. (SEE ATTACHMENT ON FILE FOR SOURCES). MLA I would like you to think about the author Kate Chopin. Do some research about the author and her work, and then consider her two texts: The Storm and The Story of an Hour. For her time, Chopin was quite a controversial writer. A woman author writing about women who are unconventional. (If you havent read Chopins The Awakening yet, you can further see how she was quite controversialand if you enjoyed these two stories, you might also enjoy this novella). If we think specifically about Calixta and Mrs. Mallard, what makes them unconventional women, specifically, unconventional wives. Explain using examples from the texts (quote directly). Do you think they would be considered unconventional women today? Furthermore, think about how marriage is discussed and how does Chopin us description and symbolism (think of her use of colors, and how she used the storm as a symbolic moment of time to have an affair) to create her stories? On Chopins The Storm 1) What is significant about Kate Chopins title, The Storm? 2) How does The Storms setting contribute the plot? 3) Neither family seems affected or harmed by Calixta and Alcees adulterous rendezvous. What do you think about this, do you agree or disagree? Why? Explain using details from the text. On Chopins The Story of an Hour 4) . What is significant about Kate Chopins title, The Story of an Hour? 5) What are the conflicts in “The Story of an Hour”? Refer to conflicts as external or internal, and explain using examples from the text. 6) Why do you think Chopin mentions that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble in the first paragraph? What does this do for her story?
