Kate Chopin At Fault Analysis

The Women’s Movement began in the late nineteenth century were women wanted to break the unfairness of women issue of voting, lack of education, could not get jobs or own property, and getting married at young ages. Kate Chopin was one of the feminist American writers in the nineteenth century. Chopin break her silent by writing her first novel At Fault, which was rejected by Belford.
“When Belford’s rejected it, Chopin, forty years old and eager for literary recognition, published it on her own. She was well organized and determined in this endeavor. Her records indicate that she sent two hundred and fifty copies to a distributor and numerous copies to libraries and editors of magazines and newspapers in St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, and New York.” (Larrabee, Denise) At Fault takes place at a Louisiana plantation, in the novel Chopin wrote about love, obstacles, freedom and the reuniting the country. The characters in the novel, like many of the people living in Louisiana at the time, are Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, Native Americans, and people of mixed race. Most of Chopin characters in the novel are poor because of …show more content…
Negative reviews of At Fault objected to Chopin’s subjects—divorce and alcoholism— and her truthful portrayal of everyday life. As the reviewer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, “One shudders at hearing Hosmer tell his wife to ‘shut up,’ and we protest against Melicent’s five engagements. (Larrabee, Denise) Her characters in this novel survived unhappy marriages and spoke to each other uncivilly when angry, but they also cherished their love for one and other, but and very different ways. For his part, Chopin quotes in her book
“But we make a step toward [truth], when we learn that there is rottenness and evil in the world, masquerading as right and morality – when we learn to know the living spirit from the dead letter.” (Chopin,