Writing Prompt: Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton wrote about the issues surrounding women, family, and women’s place in society. Choose one of the assigned stories. For your mini-essay post, discuss one of the issues in the story you chose.
IMPORTAN:
300 words mini essay.
Include In-text citation.
Kate Chopin
Read “The Story of an Hour”: http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/Kate%20Chopin%2c%20The%20Story%20of%20an%20Hour.pdf
Read “Desirée’s Baby”: http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf
Edith Wharton
Read “The Other Two”: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wharton/edith/descent_of_man/chapter2.html
Please Note: There are several transcription errors at the end of three sections in Wharton’s story.
You can ignore them.:
End of section I: Waythorn moved away with a gesture of refusal
End of section III: “Why, how do you do?” she said with a distinct note of pleasure
End of section IV: “Earth’s Martyrs.” By Stephen Phillips.
