Sharp1 In all of Kate Chopin’s writings she placed a great deal of importance on the rights and freedom of the women of her time. Chopin believed that women should have emotional, sexual, and intelluctual freedom and this belief was presented within the lines of all of her short stories, novels, and poems.(Gilbert, Gubar 1012) The Awakening by Kate Chopin was considered very shocking when it was first published because of it’s “sexual awaken…showed first 75 words of 3413 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3413 total…lude from Chopin’s stories that she believed in women’s liberation, even before the movement begun. Her stories may have been an escape for all women in her time that could relate to the oppressed Edna Pontellier, the unaware Calixta and the dreaming Mrs.Sommers.