Historical Interview Questions
History Now Magazine:
What was life like growing up in St.
Louis in the 1850s for you as a woman?
Kate Chopin:
My lifestyle was kind of hard.
Husband died and I had to take over his business.
I wasn’t
really established and...
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Historical Interview Questions
History Now Magazine:
What was life like growing up in St.
Louis in the 1850s for you as a woman?
Kate Chopin:
My lifestyle was kind of hard.
Husband died and I had to take over his business.
I wasn’t
really established and bringing enough money.
Along with a hard life I moved around a lot
had.
I’m a story teller and a mother taking care of my kids by myself.
Along with all this
I’m surprise I had the time to write books.
My lifestyle was basically not the easiest to live.
History Now Magazine:
How did the civil war change your life with your friends and etc.
? Where you believe you
end up if the confederate army won?
Kate Chopin:
The civil war didn’t really change my life a lot even though we had slaves but our city
worked both ways some of us had slaves and some of us didn’t.
Another thing is I only had
one friend so it didn’t really change my life.
But I lost my half- brother due to the war
because my half-brother enlisted in the Confederate
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