In 1870, Kate met and married Oscar Chopin, a Creole New Orleans native. Oscar was a cotton grower, and he and Kate spent the first 9 years of their marriage living and working on his cotton farm. Kate Chopin was, according to Harold Bloom, throughout her marriage “[…]an exemplary wife” (Bloom 11), and her daughter is quoted later as saying she was “�

Having discovered that she liked Maupassant and his style of writing, Kate threw herself into writing her own essays, short stories and novels. She drew on her strong sense of feminine independence and free will, and her experiences with the people and places of New Orleans and Louisiana, for her writing. She was heavily influenced subconsciously by all the deaths in her life, and often had femme fatales, suicides and socially shocking themes as the basis for her novels.

��Lady Bountiful of the neighborhood’” (Bloom 11). By 1879, Kate and Oscar had had five children, all boys, and Oscar’s cotton business had begun to fail. He moved his large, young family to Cloutierville Louisiana, where together they managed several plantations and eventually purchased a general store. It was here that Kate’s sixth and last child, a girl, was born. (Skaggs 3)

In 1882 Oscar died of swamp fever, leaving Kate with an extensive debt, and six young children to rear on her own. His sudden death thrust her into the role of business woman, and provider, neither of which she was particularly good at. She was later to draw on her expe

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