Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
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Mrs. Sommers, of Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" faces a major
Man-vs.-Society conflict. She is a perfect example of how humans are tempted
by material gain, "the life of luxury", and the vicious way society judges
things (or people). Society views people who live in the lap of luxury a ....
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.... the silk
stockings is the minute she becomes a different Mrs. Sommers. All of a sudden
everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as
"shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more.
She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point. ....
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