Part one of term paper
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 (Cho ...

Part two of term paper
... recorded for Kate at St. Louis Cathedral registry and the U.S. Census record of August 1850 that records a seven-month-old baby, "Cath", at the O'Flaherty home. (Toth, 24) Therefore, the actual date of birth is unclear. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was Irish immigrant who became wealthy. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was of French-Creole heritage. Eliza, at age 16, became Thomas second wife. From Thomas' first marriage was born George O'Flaherty, Kate's half brother whom she loved w ...