Kate Chopin: Adversity and Criticism Tragedy, death, adversity and criticism can one or a combination of these circumstances influence the path you take? Enduring the death of loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) O'Flaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some controversy over the actual date of her birth. Kate stated her …showed first 75 words of 2798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2798 total…where she had been a regular visitor. Kate Chopin died on August 20, 1904. She was remembered only as one of the southern local colorists of the 1890s until "The Awakening "was rediscovered in the 1970s as an early masterpiece of American realism and a superb rendering of female experience. KATE CHOPIN "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life." AN AMERICAN WRITER