Did Kate Chopin not include “Lilacs” in her short story anthology A Night in Acadie, even though she wrote it at about the same time as the stories in that anthology, because its not set in Louisiana or because it didn fit thematically with the other stories?
Probably because it’s not set in Louisiana. Some of the story’s themes and motifs are similar to those in Chopin’s Louisiana works—a woman being pulled in different directions, yearning for both individual freedom and the comfort of community, feeling tension between living “in the world,” as Sister Agathe in the story (and Lucilla Worthington in Chopin’s novel At Fault) phrases it, and retreating from the world. Chopin had planned to include “Lilacs” in A Vocation and a Voice, her third anthology of stories, but the publisher cancelled the contract for the book, and it did not appear as a separate volume until 1991, long after Chopin’s death. “A Pair of Silk Stockings” Q: In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” there is something about Mrs. Sommers that reminds me of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. But what is it? Edna is certainly not poor. An additional fifteen dollars would not seem like “a very large amount of money” for her as it does for Mrs. Sommers. A: There may be many resemblances b
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