Kate Chopin's A Respectable Women

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In Kate Chopin’s story, “A Respectable Women.”; the main character, Mrs. Baroda, husband invites his old friend over to their house, and Mrs. Baroda goes through the story having to learn how to accept her feeling she has for her husband’s friend. When her husband’s friend first arrives she gets along with him, but as the story progresses she gets a sense of uncomforted when she’s around his friend. This makes her leave their house while her husband’s friend is there to go stay with her family in the city. The reason Mrs. Baroda left was because she started having feelings of love for her husband’s friend, and if she stayed she might have done something that she would have regretted. When she first meets her husband’s friend she doesn’t know

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