In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century there was a strong movement busting through the United States and Europe. This movement known as the Women’s Movement was helping women everywhere to realize that they have potentials to be something on their own, and to choose on their own future not to have it chosen for them. Documents such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments, and Mina Loy’s Feminist Manifesto gave …showed first 75 words of 854 total…

…showed last 75 words of 854 total…by the reality and moralistic nonsense of her era. This is one of the most realistic portrayals of a true woman stifled by the constraints of women during the Woman’s Movement. There are still aspects of our society today that keep woman from their full potential. While Edna travels through her change Chopin reveals to her reader the injustices that society, at that time, put on women, and uses realism to express her ideas.