Week 9

The “ism” I enjoyed most was Realism. The author I read from was Kate Chopin and I read both “The Kiss” and “A Respectable Women”. I enjoyed her work the most because the short stories were easy to follow and contained a full formed plot and point. I also enjoyed the historical aspect of her stories. In Literary realism the author writes about things as they appear in real life; so through a writer's work you can learn about that time period as it really was. In both the stories I read I found them very realistic and could see them happening as they were described. In “The Kiss” the main character, a women, marries a man for his money while expecting her other lover to continue their affair. The point of the story being you can't have everything in life. In “A Respectable Women” the main character, also a women, finds her self strangely attracted to one of her husbands friends. She keeps her self at bay by saying she is a respectable women. Then later on in time she decides if her husbands friend visits again it wouldn't be so bad if she gave in to a little temptation. I find this so realistic because adultery is a theme we see throughout time. Another reason why I liked Chopin's works were because she chose to write about strong female characters. Not the timid, average women, one might see from another author of the same time period. I do think I will enjoy reading the rest of Kate Chopin's work.