The Awakening: Genre 1 key example

At less than 200 pages, The Awakening is a short novel. Centered around the experiences of a woman who abandons the restrictive norms Victorian society places on her, it is a notable and early example of feminist literature (though the term "feminism" wasn't coined until later). Chopin was raised entirely by a community of older women after her father died when she was five, and she birthed six children by the age of twenty-eight. Her life circumstances may have influenced her to write stories and books that are told from female characters' perspectives and that center women's inner thoughts, emotions, and desires.