What are we supposed to understand by Chopins statement, “That is the way Maman-Nainaine was”?
In Kate Chopin’s nineteenth-century Louisiana, Bernard Koloski writes, Creole culture often “shapes Creoles’, ‘Cajuns’, blacks’, and others’ understanding of what is natural.” Creole Maman-Nainaine gives no reason for why Babette is to visit her cousins when the figs are ripe or for why Frosine is to return the visit when the chrysanthemums are in bloom.
