The Awakening of Kate Chopin [8] -

Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening, must pick between her dying husband and her lover, the wealthy planter next door. She picks her lover, and he leaves her. In agony she goes forth to become the great writer she was meant to be. A tour de force play of obsession rooted in the real life of the famous first great American novelist and based on detailed, shocking facts from her life. She wants to hold on to her marriage and her six small children and launch herself as a novelist in 1884. Frustrating her attempts are her wealthy next door neighbor, wanting to prove his masculinity, her jealous husband, stricken with malaria, the little sex-pot seamstress next door, the town gossip, and the bankrupt cotton business, which consumes her time. All this results in an epic post Civil War story of the first great American woman novelist.see less