Kate chopin was a realist, because she didn't want her readers to use their imagination. She gives very specific details so that we will know exactly how she felt at the time. Such as this qhoute."When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body." This shows the joy she had knowing that her husband would no longer be there. It helps you feel the same way she did at that point in time.
The social issue in this story was that husband's were controling their wifes. Kat never specifically said this was the problem, but saying she felt free showed what she was trying to say. Back in the day this was not a problem to anyone, it was actually normall. Now it is against the law, and you could be arrested for it. such as when she says "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination."
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