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…showed last 75 words of 6220 total…l norms is overcome; Chopin succeeds in not only mimicking male form to female purpose, but in disrupting this form and the patriarchy it represents "...from within its own discursive parameters" (Cutter p.18). Maupassant's example has been exploited to obtain feminist ends. Chopin has moved beyond the French androcentric influence; she has, in the words of Fusco "...blaze[d] her own path" - the path of feminism, that path which led, ultimately, to The Awakening.