Biographical Sketch of Kate Chopin (Catherine O’Flaherty) Catherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who became a prosperous merchant. Chopin’s father, Thomas, had one son, George, who was 4 years old when his mother died. Thomas O’Flaherty needed a wife to […]
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin Original title – \” A Solitary Soul\” \”Good-by—because I love you.\” He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him—but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone.” No
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The Swan by Mary Oliver “What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience. Inside the river there is an unfinishable story.” I was unfamiliar with Mary Oliver until I read her poem and prose
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