Kate Chopin was a feminist, and it is said that "She told directly - and without moral judgment - how certain women are beginning to challenge the dominant male culture that limited all aspects of life the lives of women – even the lives of wealthy women – and they tried to control their psyches too” (“Chopin” 550). The story, The Awakening, is set in the late 1800s , the book was actually completed in January 1898, when the typical roles of men and women were expected to be of a certain caliber, and it was not common for anyone to deviate from the path that had been laid out for them in The Awakening, as well as in some of her other works, she explores the possibility of sexism. Protagonist Edna Pontellier sees the "perfect" blueprint of what a woman should be in a woman, Adele Ratignolle, who Edna met during her family's summer vacation in Grand. Isle. Edna is also involved in a struggle within herself over what is the "right" role of mother and wife. Kate Chopin not only shows her feelings of sexism in The Awakening, but also in her story, Desiree's Baby. In the story Chopin showed two important characters, Edna Pontellier and Adele Ratignolle, as two strangers who meet during a summer vacation. The two women become friends. The two women are truly the definition of opposites when it comes to the standard style of the perfect woman. Adele is the "perfect" model expected of women in the 1800s. She lives for her family. She had been married for seven years when the two women met. She had already had three children and was pregnant with the fourth, while Edna had been married for a shorter period, six years, and had only had two children... middle of the paper... d.Kate Chopin was a woman she didn't know the "right" way for women to think and act in the late 1800s. She was a feminist writer who brought her opinions into her writing. He showed his thoughts on sexism in many different ways. Some of the ways include comparing the lifestyles of two important characters, Edna and Adele in The Awakening. She also used this story to show sexism by showing the struggle that occurred within Edna to conform to the correct way of being. Chopin helps her main character Desiree overcome sexism and, blamed by her husband, Desiree's Baby, simply by giving the ending a twist and making the husband actually guilty of what he felt "went wrong" with the baby. Chopin uses different techniques, but in the end he manages to make it clear that everyone is equal, regardless of gender.