A Pair of Silk Stockings

by

Kate Chopin

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The Pair of Silk Stockings

The beautiful and delicate pair of silk stockings that Mrs. Sommers finds while shopping carry several levels of symbolic significance. In one sense, the stockings symbolize Mrs. Sommers’s repressed desires—the desire to feel beautiful, the…

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