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Kate Chopin uses a lot of french in her writing. I know she is french american, but I wonder if she grew up speaking french with her family. Anyway, i started reading another short story. This one called Ma’ame Pelagie. This story took a little while for me to understand what was happening, but basically a family used to live on a big plantation. When the slaves rebeled and almost destroyed the big house the family lived in, only a few woman were left. They lived in a run down cabin next to the ruins of the big house. One woman, Madame Pelagie, had a fiance before the house burnt down. I can only assume he died in the rebellion because he is never mention except in Pelagies’ memories. Pelagie often at night visits the ruins and this is when Chopin fills us in on her past. It’s….pretty trippy when she writes about this past. Like a movie flash back would look like written.
So far more themes are places. In The Awakening Edna buys her own house away from her husband, to start her own life. This is where she connects with Robers [the guys she loves] and where she gives in to lust with Arobin. In Ma’ame Pelagie the ruins of her old house awoke her emotions from the past.
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