Kate Chopin lived during this time period where women did not have a voice. A great deal of her life was defined by the deaths of those close to her. Her father died when she was 4 and her brother died in the same year. In the stories she wrote, most of them were set in Louisiana and focused on the issues that women dealt with during this time period. In her story “The story of an hour” Chopin addressed a lot of the issues that pertained to feminism, like the idea of women having the ability to distinct her identity from that of her husband and the right for a woman to be independent and free to pursue her own interests. In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour,” Louise’s reactions to her husband’s death are used to highlight a woman’s struggle between
