Author(s)

Ma Gang

Corresponding Author

Ma Gang

Abstract

Kate Chopin is an outstanding woman writer in the late 19th century America. Her fictions describe the women oppressed by men in 19th century in America. Women’s awakening and subverting spirit run through all Chopin’s works. The thesis analyzes A Pair of Silk Stockings, Athénaïse in Athénaïse, Edna and Reisz in The Awakening and Paula von Stolz in Wiser than a God to show women’s awakening to marital confinement to search for selfhood.

Keywords

Kate Chopin, Subverting Spirit, Selfhood