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Kate Chopin who was born Catherine O'Flaherty on July 12, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was one of three children born to immigrant Irishman Thomas O'Flaherty and a French-American mother Eliza Faris. In 1855, Thomas O'Flaherty died when Kate was five years old. The lack of male role model in Kates life would greatly influenced her later on in life as a writer. The majority of the stories she wrote were about feminist issues and struggles that women were going through in the 1800's. A novel like the Awakening is one of Kate Chopin's most successful and Well-known stories she wrote. Kate Chopin short story "The Story of an hour" was one of her more personal short stories and wanted readers to know how women felt in the 1800's. When Mrs. Mallard realizes that she would not mind living her life without her husband, it was like a spirit hit her. I compared her reaction to the reaction of a person on a roller coaster or two cars that almost crashed in to each other. A roller coaster ride is very exciting and a car accident could be very dangerous and sad but both triggers the human body in the same way. In Kate Chopin short story "The story of an Hour" Mrs. Mallard feels this towards her husband death." The vacant stare and the l