Kate Chopin is well-known writer from the late nineteenth century. She is famous for her novel The Awakening (1899) as well as many short stories, usually written in the setting of the American South, Louisiana region, noticed by her use of dialects. Her works are written in a poetic manner, mainly with a focus on women in her day and the woman in her story’s search for identity and independence. As Chopin was widowed in her early thirties, she raised six children alone, as well as ran her late-husband’s
in many works of literature that dissect the constraints that are placed on men and women alike. Two such works are “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, which analyze the tragic circumstance that surround the respective lives of the protagonists. In the two short stories, Gilman and Chopin show through themes, symbols, motifs and other literary tools how the two female protagonists suffer under the oppression of their surroundings and male dominance