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Analysis Of Marriage In Calixta, By Kate Chopin

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You are in love, you get married, and you are tied to this person for life. In Chopin’s case, marriage was a little different. In her time, marriage was forced on women without a choice. You did not really get the chance to meet the person or get to know the person that you were going to be with till death do you part. Sex, love, and marriage had no meaning to women because it was all chosen for them. To begin with, the women were unhappy with their marriage. It was not something that was not important to them. In Calixta situation, she is portrayed as a women who had no heart towards her husband or her son. In the text, it stated that she “felt no uneasiness for their safety” (Chopin 105). She didn’t care for her family. I believe that she
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