Kate Chopin, a repute author of feminist short stories, was deeply affected by her family environment. She was the third born of five children but many of her siblings and half siblings had died in their infant years, relating, she grew up around death. “I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions.” (The Night Came Slowly) The topic of death and overall loneliness become very apparent in Chopin's writing. Due to the multiple losses of her loved ones she seems to be unaffected my death, and this is portrayed in her writing clearly. She writes nonchalantly about being alone and wanting “Neither books nor men” saying that they both make her suffer. When she was five she was sent off to a private
