Stocking

The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” written by Kate Chopin in 1897, describes a day in the life of a woman that gets lost in a shopping binge and creates a new identity through her consumption. This question this paper pursues is what kind of identity she creates and how she does it. Without money, Mrs Sommers’ change of identity would not be possible. She finds “herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars” (Chopin 500), which was a huge amount of money at that time. This situation

a book of a collection of stories about what O'Brien encountered during his time in the Vietnam War. In many of the stories they, talk about things they had and good things that they want back. One of the stories that I connected closely to was “Stocking”. “No sweat, the magic doesn't go away” (112). In the end, they carry on with the memories of something good or major to them, but all good things must come to an end, at least that's what i’ve been told. Similar to an experience I had not too long

an Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" were both written in the 1800 's. The stories are both written by Kate Chopin, a female author. The period in which these stories were written gave impact on other female writers to produce stories too. The literary devices Chopin uses in both these stories show how educated female writers were at the time. The way the author, Kate Chopin, uses many literary devices in her works, "The Story of an Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings", such as location, imagery

life of a typical female in the 1800s was. Without doubt, A Pair of Silk Stockings and A Wagner Matinee gives insight on the sacrifices women are expected to make for their families. Both Chopin and Cather had felt repressed greatly by the standards of motherhood and domesticity created by

In "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin, the protagonist, Mrs. Sommers, finds herself in a dilemma when she is given the responsibility of fifteen dollars and loses her responsibility as a mother as she spends the the money on herself which showcases the need for self-reliance. Being her own antagonist, Mrs. Sommers is torn between the two roles she has in her life, being her own person and being a mother. In the beginning of the story we see Mrs. Sommers as a responsible mother that puts the

Eventually when she goes out to spend the money she ends up spending all of it on herself. Kate Chopin conveys the idea of how people are selfish in this story, but being selfish benefits only yourself and not others. Mrs Sommers in “A Pair of Silk Stockings” is selfish. She is selfish because she ends up spending all of the 15 dollars on herself. At first she said “A dollar or two should be added to the priced usually paid for Janie’s shoes” (Chopin 1). Meaning that she is thinking about

The ending of the story “Stockings” matches with my expectations for the conclusion. In the first portion of the story, the author Tim O’Brien wrote, “Dobbins was invulnerable. Never wounded, never a scratch”. Therefore, Henry Dobbins’ invincible leads me to think about that whatever happens to Dobbins, he will not give up the stockings, and he will tie them in his neck as a lucky charm. In the ending, as what I thought, Dobbins put the stockings in the back of his neck even though his girlfriend

and screenwriter William John Banville says “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” The past influences person to be who they are today, whether their past self is like their current self. The character Mrs. Sommers from “A Pair of Silk Stockings” written by Kate Chopin and the character Aunt Georgina from “A Wagner Matinee” written by Willa Cather both have a past self they experience in their stories and does not correlate with their current self. Other than this they share multiple similarities

is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” This quote by Oscar Wilde is relative to the actions of Mrs.Sommers, considering her children and the state in which her family lives in. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Kate Chopin, a mother of at least four children temporarily escapes the hardships of motherhood for a day and enjoys long missed extravagance. She was formerly a woman of luxury, and when she acquires a large amount of money, she decides to

earlier society put on women’s shoulders. Throughout time, women have played the role of the quiet house wife. Society enforces the expectations that women should follow society’s demands over their own desires. In Chopin’s story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the main character, Mrs. Sommers, wished to escape the typical role of a busy housewife and wanted to live independently in the life of luxury. These writings are relevant today since feminism hasn’t prospered to the point that both men and women